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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231547604
Other title:
  • Many lives of a Japanese classic
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PL788 .U535 2018
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
(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.
Subject: 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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PL788.6.33 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1033546673

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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