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 Reading the Tale of Genji: Its Picture Scrolls, Texts and Romance

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xvi)   (2M)
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    • Table Of Contents
    • Preface
    • A Note To The Reader
    • List Of Plates
    • Introduction: Reading The Genji Scrolls And The Tale Of Genji
  • Scripting The Moribund: The Genji Scrolls’ Aesthetics Of Decomposition (1-36) by Reginald Jackson   (477K)
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    • Overture
    • Reading Infirm Depictions: Portrayals Of Illness And Calligraphic Distension In The Genji Scrolls’ Kashiwagi And Minori
    • Art Historical Background
    • Paper Design / Calligraphy
    • Sounding Out The Script
    • Notes
  • The Narration Of Tales, The Narration Of Paintings (37-60) by Sano Midori   (870K)
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    • Understanding Narrative, Understanding Paintings
    • Narrating In The Tale Of Genji Scrolls
    • Conclusions And Amendments – The Reader Beyond The Plot
    • Notes
  • Displacements Of Conquest, Or Exile, The Tale Of Genji, And Post-Cold War Learning (61-79) by Richard H. Okada   (221K)
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    • Notes
  • Person, Honorifics And Tense In The Tale Of Genji (80-100) by Murakami Fuminobu   (350K)
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    • Person And Honorifics
    • ‘き’ (Ki) And ‘けり’ (Keri)
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
  • ‘Kiritsubo’: Genji, Spacing And Naming (101-131) by Jeremy Tambling   (340K)
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    • Introduction
    • Reading The Medieval Text
    • Openings And Prior Narratives
    • Mourning And Melancholia
    • Homogeneity And Heterogeneity
    • Masculinity And Femininity
    • Language And Desire
    • Notes
  • Genji And The Gardens Of Medieval Romance (132-170) by Richard Stanley-Baker   (470K)
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    • Introduction
    • Medieval Romance: Global Markers
    • Historic Gardens And Romance’s Différence
    • The Gardens Of Genji
    • Enchantment And Danger In The Garden
    • The Enclosed Garden Of Japanese Romance
    • The Rokujō Gardens For All Seasons: A Trope Of Imperial Sage-Rulership
    • The Gardens Of ‘Mythic’ Spring
    • The ‘Earthly Paradise’ And Spiritual Perfectibility
    • Excursions And Idyll On The Pond
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
  • Appendix (171-174)   (48K)
  • Bibliography Of Japanese Sources (175-179)   (251K)
  • General Index (180-185)   (110K)
  • Author Index (186-188)   (79K)
  • Plates (189-227)   (11M)