Murasaki

Author : Richard Bowring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0521539757

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Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji by Richard Bowring Pdf

Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji, written in Japan in the early eleventh century, is acknowledged to be one of Japan's greatest literary achievements, and sometimes thought of as the world's first novel. It is also one of the earliest major works to be written by a woman. This introduction to the Genji sketches the cultural background, offers detailed analysis of the text, discusses matters of language and style and ends by tracing the history of its reception through nine centuries of cultural change. This book will be useful for survey courses in Japanese and World Literature. Because The Tale of Genji is so long, it is often not possible for students to read it in its entirety and this book will therefore be used not only as an introduction, but also as a guide through the difficult and convoluted plot.

Author : 紫式部
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Japan
ISBN : 4805309210

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源氏物語 by 紫式部 Pdf

Author : Erick DuPree
Publisher : Notes On A Classic
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9798549164376

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Uncovering Genji: A Reader's Guide To Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale Of Genji by Erick DuPree Pdf

Notes On A Classic™ Series are designed to take the extraordinary in literature and make them accessible to modern readers. Anthropologist Erick DuPree has compiled the cultural and social context of the world of Prince Genji alongside the more profound meaning to help readers fully discover the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. Uncovering Genji: A Reader's Guide To Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale Of Genji is a complete reader's guide offering detailed chapter summaries and thematic commentaries covering the most widely taught chapters, as well as cross-referenced notes on the novel's many characters. Commentary on critical themes like Women and Sexual Politics, Nature, and Power, as well as timelines, details about Murasaki Shikibu's life, the Heian court, and more.

Author : Poul Anderson
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553561871

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Murasaki by Poul Anderson Pdf

Six Nebula Award-winning authors--Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Nancy Kress, and Frederik Pohl--have produced a stellar work of hard science fiction that made the New York Times Book Review Summer Reading List in hardcover. It is a novel in six parts set on two planets orbiting a star called Murasaki.

Author : James McMullen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190655006

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Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji by James McMullen Pdf

Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji is variously read as a work of feminist protest, the world's first psychological novel and even as a post-modern masterpiece. Commonly seen as Japan's greatest literary work, its literary, cultural, and historical significance has been thoroughly acknowledged. As a work focused on the complexities of Japanese court life in the Heian period, however, the The Tale of Genji has never before been the subject of philosophical investigation. The essays in this volume address this oversight, arguing that the work contains much that lends itself to philosophical analysis. The authors of this volume demonstrate that The Tale of Genji confronts universal themes such as the nature and exercise of political power, freedom, individual autonomy and agency, renunciation, gender, and self-expression; it raises deep concerns about aesthetics and the role of art, causality, the relation of man to nature, memory, and death itself. Although Murasaki Shikibu may not express these themes in the text as explicitly philosophical problems, the complex psychological tensions she describes and her observations about human conduct reveal an underlying framework of philosophical assumptions about the world of the novel that have implications for how we understand these concerns beyond the world of Genji. Each essay in this collection reveals a part of this framework, situating individual themes within larger philosophical and historical contexts. In doing so, the essays both challenge prevailing views of the novel and each other, offering a range of philosophical interpretations of the text and emphasizing the The Tale of Genji's place as a masterful work of literature with broad philosophical significance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : EPOCH
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu: A Modern Translation by Anonim Pdf

Step into the private chambers of the Japanese imperial palace alongside Murasaki Shikibu, the renowned author of “The Tale of Genji,” in her captivating diary. This modern translation of Murasaki Shikibu's Diary preserves the timeless allure of her storytelling while making her intimate reflections accessible to contemporary readers. As you journey through the pages of this literary treasure, prepare to be transported to a world of elegance, intrigue, and profound emotional depth. Experience firsthand the enduring legacy of a literary genius whose words continue to captivate hearts and minds centuries later. This newly translated edition offers readers a rare glimpse into the daily life and innermost thoughts of one of history's most enigmatic figures. In this modern translation of Murasaki Shikibu's Diary, Erick DuPree, reminds us why Murasaki Shikibu’s voice echoes across the ages, inviting us to embark on a journey of discovery and enlightenment. As we immerse ourselves in the luminous prose of this literary luminary, we are reminded of the enduring power of words to illuminate the darkest recesses of the human heart.

Author : Liza Dalby
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400032785

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The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby Pdf

The Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha. In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu wrote the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji, the most popular work in the history of Japanese literature. In The Tale of Murasaki, Liza Dalby has created a breathtaking fictionalized narrative of the life of this timeless poet–a lonely girl who becomes such a compelling storyteller that she is invited to regale the empress with her tales. The Tale of Murasaki is the story of an enchanting time and an exotic place. Whether writing about mystical rice fields in the rainy mountains or the politics and intrigue of the royal court, Dalby breathes astonishing life into ancient Japan.

Author : Murasaki Shikibu
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141907659

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The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu Pdf

The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace - the auspicious birth of a prince, rivalries between the Emperor's consorts, with sharp criticism of Murasaki's fellow ladies-in-waiting and drunken courtiers, and telling remarks about the timid Empress and her powerful father, Michinaga. The Diary is also a work of great subtlety and intense personal reflection, as Murasaki makes penetrating insights into human psychology - her pragmatic observations always balanced by an exquisite and pensive melancholy.

Author : Lady Murasaki Shikibu,Sean Michael Wilson
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781462922840

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Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji: The Manga Edition by Lady Murasaki Shikibu,Sean Michael Wilson Pdf

Step into a story of life and love in Kyoto's 10th century royal court. Tale of Genji, the world's oldest known novel, tells the story of Prince Genji and his adventures in life, love, and power within the halls of the Chrysanthemum Royal Court. Handsome, romantic, and talented in the art of seduction, Prince Genji skillfully navigates the court and all its intrigues—always in search of love and often finding it. His story is the oldest and most famous tale of romance in the annals of Japanese literature and, as a representation of passion and romance, remains beyond compare. In this beautifully illustrated edition, Genji's story comes alive as readers experience: His birth in the royal court to Kiritsubo, who comes to represent Genji's ideal of female beauty and grace. His lifelong obsession with Fujitsubo, one of the emperor's lovers and mother to Genji's son Ryozen. His romantic life with Murasaki, Fujitsubo's beautiful niece and Genji's favored lover. Though wary of his motivations at first, she becomes the true love of Genji's life. Lady Murasaki Shikibu wrote this story some 500 years before Shakespeare put pen to paper. It is acknowledged to be the world's very first novel, and English-speaking readers can now experience the story in manga style for the first time. Superbly illustrated and retold, this visual take on Japan's most important classic offers an intimate look at the social mores and intrigues in the Heian-era court of medieval Japan, and Prince Genji's representation as the ideal male courtier.

Author : John Latham
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781910974285

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From Professor Murasaki’s Notebooks on the Effects of Lightning on the Human Body by John Latham Pdf

A John Latham poem is a like a precipitation: images coalesce around a single memory the way ice crystallises around the smallest particle to form a snowflake; the strange logic that constructs them is unique each time. Passionate, satirical, mysterious, the poems in his sixth collection capture the vibrancy of a childhood that still bewitches him half a century later, alongside the cruel betrayals of old age, and the fresh possibilities bound up in each new encounter. Latham’s training as a physicist may bring a cosmic perspective to the landscapes he maps out, but they are also profoundly local. The wonders of the universe are no more mysterious to him than the simple oddity of other humans. And as the title poem demonstrates, every last atom of detail, even the mistakes of a makeshift translation, have the capacity to beguile. The title poem - From Professor Murasaki’s Notebooks on the Effects of Lightning on the Human Body - won second prize (out of 12,000 entries) in the UK’s most prestigious competition, The National Poetry Competition (2006).

Author : Rebecca L. Copeland,Melek Ortabasi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231137744

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The Modern Murasaki by Rebecca L. Copeland,Melek Ortabasi Pdf

The first anthology of its kind, The Modern Murasaki brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose, the editors have chosen and carefully translated short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and personal journal entries. Selected readings include writings by the public speaker Kishida Toshiko, the dramatist Hasegawa Shigure, the short-fiction writer Shimizu Shikin, the political writer Tamura Toshiko, and the novelists Miyake Kaho, Higuchi Ichiyo, Tazawa Inabune, Kitada Usurai, Nogami Yaeko, and Mizuno Senko. The volume also includes a thorough introduction to each reading, an extensive index listing historical, social, and literary concepts, and a comprehensive guide to further research. The fierce tenor and bold content of these texts refute the popular belief that women of this era were passive and silent. A vital addition to courses in women's studies and Japanese literature and history, The Modern Murasaki is a singular resource for students and scholars.

Author : Murasaki Shikibu
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101097397

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The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu Pdf

An abridged edition of the world’s first novel, in a translation that is “likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come” (The Wall Street Journal) A Penguin Classic Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel—and is certainly one of its finest. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an emperor. He is a passionate character whose tempestuous nature, family circumstances, love affairs, alliances, and shifting political fortunes form the core of this magnificent epic. Royall Tyler’s superior translation is detailed, poetic, and superbly true to the Japanese original while allowing the modern reader to appreciate it as a contemporary treasure. In this deftly abridged edition, Tyler focuses on the early chapters, which vividly evoke Genji as a young man and leave him at his first moment of triumph. This edition also includes detailed notes, glossaries, character lists, and chronologies.

Author : Yamada Murasaki
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770466609

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Talk to My Back by Yamada Murasaki Pdf

Now that we've woken from the dream, what are we going to do?" Chiharu thinks to herself, rubbing her husband's head affectionately. Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back (1981-84) explores the fraying of Japan's suburban middle-class dreams through a woman's relationship with her two daughters as they mature and assert their independence, and with her husband, who works late and sees his wife as little more than a domestic servant. While engaging frankly with the compromises of marriage and motherhood, Yamada remains generous with the characters who fetter her protagonist. When her husband has an affair, Chiharu feels that she, too, has broken the marital contract by straying from the template of the happy housewife. Yamada saves her harshest criticisms for society at large, particularly its false promises of eternal satisfaction within the nuclear family - as fears of having been "thrown away inside that empty vessel called the household" gnaw at Chiharu's soul. Yamada was the first cartoonist in Japan to use the expressive freedoms of alt-manga to address domesticity and womanhood in a realistic, critical, and sustained way. A watershed work of literary manga, Talk to My Back was serialized in the influential magazine Garo in the early 1980s, and is translated by Eisner-nominated Ryan Holmberg.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015008026331

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Murasaki Shikibu by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Un-American Activities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045623431

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Hearings Regarding Communist Activities in the Territory of Hawaii by United States. Congress. House. Un-American Activities Pdf