Crossing the Bridge
Subtitle: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers (The New Middle Ages)
Contributors: Barbara Stevenson (Editor); Cynthia Ho (Editor)
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312221676
Subjects: Comparative Literature; Women In Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; General; Heian period, 794-1185; History and criticism; Japanese literature; Literature, Medieval; Women Authors
First sentence: I begin this discussion of surrogates in The Tale of Genji and what I shall call the problematic of "speaking for" with two questions.