Envisioning the Tale of Genji
Subtitle: media, gender, and cultural production
By: edited by   Haruo Shirane.
Contributors: Shirane, Haruo, 1951-
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780231142366; 9780231142373; 9780231513463
Subjects: Murasaki Shikibu, -- b. 978?; Murasaki Shikibu, -- b. 978? -- Influence; Arts, Japanese
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Tale of Genji and the dynamics of cultural production: canonization and popularization / Haruo Shirane; title: The late Heian and medieval periods: court culture, gender, and representation; title: Figure and facture in the Genji scrolls: text, calligraphy, paper, and painting / Yukio Lippit; title: The Tale of Genji and the development of female-spirit no / Reiko Yamanaka; title: The Tale of Genji  and development of female-spirit no / Reiko Yamanaka; title: Monochromatic Genji: the hakubyo tradition and female commentarial culture / Melissa McCormick; title: Genre trouble: medieval commentaries and canonization of the Tale of Genji / Lewis Cook; title: Late medieval and Edo periods: warrior society, education, and popular culture; title: Didactic readings of the Tale of Genji: politics and women's education / Haruki Li; title: Genji pictures from Momoyama painting to Edo ukiyo-e : cultural authority and new horizons / Keiko Nakamachi; title: The splendor of hybridity: image and text in Ryutei Tanehiko's Inaka Genji / Michael Emmerich; title: The Meiji, Taisho, and prewar Showa periods: National literature, world literature, and Imperial Japan; title: The Tale of Genji, national literature, language, and modernism / Tomi Suzuki; title: Wartime Japan, the Imperial line, and The Tale of Genji / Masaaki Kobayashi; title: The postwar Showa and Heisei periods: visuality, sexuality, and mass culture; title: The Tale of Genji in postwar film: Empeor, aestheticism, and the erotic / Kazuhiro Tateishi; title: Sexuality, gender, and The Tale of Genji in modern Japanese translations and manga / Yuika Kitamura.