Unreal houses : character, gender, and genealogy in the Tale of Genji / / Edith Sarra
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| Autore: |
Sarra Edith <1955->
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| Titolo: |
Unreal houses : character, gender, and genealogy in the Tale of Genji / / Edith Sarra
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London : , : Harvard University Asia Center, , [2020] |
| ©2020 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina: | 895.6314 |
| Soggetto topico: | Dwellings in literature |
| Marriage in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Electronic books. | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Matter -- Copyright Page / Author: Edith Sarra -- Dedication / Author: Edith Sarra -- Others / Author: Edith Sarra -- Acknowledgments / Author: Edith Sarra -- Figures / Author: Edith Sarra -- Introduction / Author: Edith Sarra -- chapter one Aristocratic Marriage and the Real-and-Imagined Houses of Heian Court Fiction / Author: Edith Sarra -- part one Polygyny Reimagined / Author: Edith Sarra -- chapter two Architects of Polygyny: Genji, His Women, and Their Houses / Author: Edith Sarra -- chapter three The Rokujōin: The House of Wishful Thinking / Author: Edith Sarra -- part two Tamakazura's Problems of Placement / Author: Edith Sarra -- chapter four A Balancing Act: Tamakazura in Genji's House / Author: Edith Sarra -- chapter five Tamakazura's House / Author: Edith Sarra -- part three Kaoru and the Undoing of the House / Author: Edith Sarra -- chapter six What Kaoru Inherits: Fathers, Sons, and the Ethics of Genealogical Fiction / Author: Edith Sarra -- chapter seven As One Who Dwells Provisionally / Author: Edith Sarra -- Back Matter -- Epilogue: Leaving the House / Author: Edith Sarra -- Abbreviations / Author: Edith Sarra -- Notes / Author: Edith Sarra -- Bibliography / Author: Edith Sarra -- Index / Author: Edith Sarra -- Harvard East Asian Monographs / Author: Edith Sarra. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Argues that, in both form and content, the Tale of Genji re-envisions the elite practice of polygynous marriage and the construction of aristocratic mansions as expressions of familial power. Radically rethinks the Genji by focusing on the figure of the house-encompassing both fictionalized images of mansions and their inhabitants"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Unreal houses |
| ISBN: | 1-68417-612-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910794269903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Harvard East Asian monographs ; ; 429.