{"product_id":"the-bridge-of-dreams-a-poetics-of-the-tale-of-genji-paperback","title":"The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of 'The Tale of Genji' - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHaruo Shirane\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bridge of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant reading of \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/i\u003e that succeeds both as a sophisticated work of literary criticism and as an introduction this world masterpiece. Taking account of current literary theory and a long tradition of Japanese commentary, the author guides both the general reader and the specialist to a new appreciation of the structure and poetics of this complex and often seemingly baffling work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/i\u003e, written in the early eleventh century by a court lady, Murasaki Shikibu, is Japan's most outstanding work of prose fiction. Though bearing a striking resemblance to the modern psychological novel, the \u003ci\u003eGenji\u003c\/i\u003e was not conceived and written as a single work and then published and distributed to a mass audience as novels are today. Instead, it was issued in limited installments, sequence by sequence, to an extremely circumscribed, aristocratic audience. This study discusses the growth and evolution of the \u003ci\u003eGenji\u003c\/i\u003e and the manner in which recurrent concerns--political, social, and religious--are developed, subverted, and otherwise transformed as the work evolves from one stage to another.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThroughout, the author analyzes the \u003ci\u003eGenji\u003c\/i\u003e in the context of those literary works and conventions that Murasaki explicitly or implicitly presupposed her contemporary audience to know, and reveals how the \u003ci\u003eGenji\u003c\/i\u003e works both within and against the larger literary and sociopolitical tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book contains a color frontispiece by a seventeenth-century artist and eight pages of black-and-white illustrations from a twelfth-century scroll. Two appendixes present an analysis of biographical and textual problems and a detailed index of principal characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaruo Shirane is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 8.99 x 6.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 1988\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42737433772095,"sku":"9780804717199","price":44.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c345ccdb8c22462795e6c96edbfb0503.webp?v=1765149972","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bridge-of-dreams-a-poetics-of-the-tale-of-genji-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}