Itineraries of power : texts and traversals in Heian and medieval Japan / Terry Kawashima.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kawashima, Terry, author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 395.

Harvard East Asian monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--Heian period, 794-1185--History and criticism.

Japanese literature.

Japanese literature--To 1600--History and criticism.

Power (Social sciences) in literature.

Japanese literature--Heian period.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 240 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Distribution:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2016.

Summary:

"Examines a selection of prose narratives and poetry of the mid-Heian to medieval eras (900-1400) which conspicuously features tropes of movement. Argues that the concurrent appearance in a story of a character's physical motion and the techniques identified with literary strategies of motion is a textual signpost urging readers to focus on how the work conceptualizes relations of power and claims to authority."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Yamato monogatari: movement, gender, and nation

Sanekata: poetry, territory, and the exilic

Shigehira: genres and politics in Heike monogatari

Suwa: multiplicity, ubiquity, and "elsewhere" in shrine origin narratives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674970526

0674970527

OCLC:

936549110

Publisher Number:

40026692407