Unbinding The pillow book : the many lives of a Japanese classic / Gergana Ivanova.

By:

Ivanova, Gergana E [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780231547604
0231547609

Other title:

Many lives of a Japanese classic

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Unbinding The Pillow Book.DDC classification:

895.6/81 23

LOC classification:

PL788.6.M33 I93 2018

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Contents:

What is The Pillow Book? -- (Re)constructing the text and early modern scholarship -- From a guide to court life to a guide to the pleasure quarters -- The Pillow Book for early modern female readers -- Shaping the woman writer -- New markets for Japanese classics.

Summary: Gergana Ivanova explores how The Pillow Book and its author have been read from the seventeenth century to the present. She shows how various ideologies have influenced the text and shaped interactions among its different versions, in the first book-length study in English of the reception history of Sei Shōnagon.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gergana Ivanova explores how The Pillow Book and its author have been read from the seventeenth century to the present. She shows how various ideologies have influenced the text and shaped interactions among its different versions, in the first book-length study in English of the reception history of Sei Shōnagon.