Knowing the Amorous Man : a history of scholarship on Tales of Ise / Jamie L. Newhard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newhard, Jamie L.

Series:

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 355.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 355

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ise monogatari--Criticism, Textual--History.

Ise monogatari.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages :) illustrations ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2013.

Other Title:

A History of Scholarship on Tales of Ise

Place of Publication:

Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 2013.

Summary:

"Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari) is traditionally identified as one of the most important Japanese literary texts of the Heian period (794-1185). Since its enshrinement in the classical literary canon as early as the eleventh century, the work has also been the object of intensive study and extensive commentary. Its idiosyncratic form--125 loosely connected episodes recounting the life and loves of an anonymous courtier--and mysterious authorship have provoked centuries of explication. Jamie Newhard's study skillfully combines primary-source research with a theoretically framed analysis, exploring commentaries from the medieval period into the early twentieth century, and situating the text's critical reception within an evolving historical and social context. By giving a more comprehensive picture of the social networks and scholastic institutions within which literary scholarship developed and circulated, Newhard identifies the ideological, methodological, and literary issues that shaped the commentators' agendas as the audience for classical literature expanded beyond aristocratic circles to include other social groups. Her approach illuminates how exegesis of Tales of Ise ultimately reflects shifting historical and social assessments that construct, transform, and transmit the literary and cultural value of the work over time.".

Contents:

Literary knowledge in sociohistorical perspective

Ise monogatari in Heian and Early Medieval literary thought

Economies of secrecy: Ise monogatari commentaries after 1460

Commentary commodified: Ise monogatari in print

Nativist and Confucian constructions of Ise monogatari

Epilogue

The birth of the poem-tale: Ise monogatari in the modern period

Appendix 1: relations among persons who figure in Ise monogatari

Appendix 2: selections from Ise monogatari

Reference matter

Character list.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286) and index.

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ISBN:

9781684175307

1684175305

OCLC:

1132227263

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684175307 DOI