The splendor of longing in the Tale of Genji

Norma Field

ISBN 10: 0691066914 / ISBN 13: 9780691066912

Published by Princeton University Press, 1992

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occasional notes in pencil. xviii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Summary:"Foremost among Japanese literary classics and one of the world's earliest novels, the Tale of Genji was written around the year A.D. 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman from a declining aristocratic family. For sophistication and insight, Western prose fiction was to wait centuries to rival her work. Norma Field explores the shifting configurations of the Tale, showing how the hero Genji is made and unmade by a series of heroines. Professor Field draws on the riches of both Japanese and Western Scholarship, as well as on her own sensitive reading of the Tale. Included are discussions of the social, psychological, and political dimensions of the aesthetics of this novel, with emphasis on the crucial relationship of erotic and political concerns to prose fictions."--Publisher's description.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The splendor of longing in the Tale of Genji
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691066914
• ISBN 13: 9780691066912
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Japan

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About the Author

Norma Field retired in 2011 as the Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago. Her books include "In the Realm of a Dying Emperor".