Beschreibung:
Six essays by international scholars addressing the Tale of Genji Scrolls and the Tale of Genji texts in the context of new critical theory relating to cultural studies, narrative painting, comparative literature and a global view of medieval romance. It links new critical theory with multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary interests.
Preface; A Note to the Reader; Introduction; PART I: Reading the Genji Scrolls; 1 Scripting the Moribund: The Genji Scrolls' Aesthetics of Decomposition; 2 The Narration of Tales, The Narration of Paintings; PART II: Reading the Genji Texts; 3 Displacements of Conquest, or Exile: The Tale of Genji, and Post-Cold War Learning; 4 Person, Honorifics and Tense in the Tale of Genji; PART III: Reading the Genji Romance; 5 'Kiritsubo': Genji, Spacing and Naming; 6 Genji and the Gardens of Medieval Romance; Appendix: A Chapter List of The Tale of Genji, with Lists of Attributed Teams; Bibliography of Japanese Sources; Index