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Perfumed sleeves and tangled hair : body, woman, and desire in medieval Japanese narratives / Rajyashree Pandey.
LIBRA PL726.117.B63 P36 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pandey, Rajyashree, 1953- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese literature--To 1600--History and criticism.
- Japanese literature.
- Human body in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Desire in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Rethinking body, woman, sex, and agency in medieval Japanese narratives
- The erotics of the body in the Tale of Genji
- The erotics of power in the Tale of Genji
- Woman, love, poetry, and enlightenment : Izumi Shikibu as topos
- "Meditating on the impure body" : the generic transformations of a medieval topos.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824853549
- 0824853547
- OCLC:
- 909777190
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