Gender and national literature : Heian texts in the constructions of Japanese modernity / Tomiko Yoda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yoda, Tomiko.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Asia-Pacific.

Asia-Pacific

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

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

Japanese literature.

Japanese literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Feminism and literature--Japan--History--To 1500.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature--Japan--History--To 1500.

Women and literature.

Feminist literary criticism--Japan.

Feminist literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

Japanese

Summary:

This work presents a new understanding of the way that classic works of Japanese literature have been received and understood within the framework of national literature studies in Japan.

Contents:

1.The Feminization of Heian and Eighteenth-Century Poetics

2. Gender and the Nationalization of Literature

3. Women and the Emergence of Heian Kana Writing

4. Politics and Poetics in The Tale of Genji

5. Tokieda's Imperial Subject and the Textual Turn in Heian Literary Studies

6. Gender and Heian Narrative Form

Epilogue: Heian Texts and Feminist Subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-268) and index.

ISBN:

9780822385875

0822385872

OCLC:

311903370