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Author Sarra, Edith, 1955- author.

Title Unreal houses : character, gender, and genealogy in the Tale of Genji / Edith Sarra
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2020
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Series Harvard East Asian monographs ; 429
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 429.
Contents Front Matter -- Copyright Page / Author: Edith Sarra -- Dedication / Author: Edith Sarra -- Others / Author: Edith Sarra -- Acknowledgments / Author: Edith Sarra -- Figures / Author: Edith Sarra -- Introduction / Author: Edith Sarra -- chapter one Aristocratic Marriage and the Real-and-Imagined Houses of Heian Court Fiction / Author: Edith Sarra -- part one Polygyny Reimagined / Author: Edith Sarra -- chapter two Architects of Polygyny: Genji, His Women, and Their Houses / Author: Edith Sarra -- chapter three The Rokujōin: The House of Wishful Thinking / Author: Edith Sarra -- part two Tamakazura's Problems of Placement / Author: Edith Sarra -- chapter four A Balancing Act: Tamakazura in Genji's House / Author: Edith Sarra -- chapter five Tamakazura's House / Author: Edith Sarra -- part three Kaoru and the Undoing of the House / Author: Edith Sarra -- chapter six What Kaoru Inherits: Fathers, Sons, and the Ethics of Genealogical Fiction / Author: Edith Sarra -- chapter seven As One Who Dwells Provisionally / Author: Edith Sarra -- Back Matter -- Epilogue: Leaving the House / Author: Edith Sarra -- Abbreviations / Author: Edith Sarra -- Notes / Author: Edith Sarra -- Bibliography / Author: Edith Sarra -- Index / Author: Edith Sarra -- Harvard East Asian Monographs / Author: Edith Sarra
Summary "Argues that, in both form and content, the Tale of Genji re-envisions the elite practice of polygynous marriage and the construction of aristocratic mansions as expressions of familial power. Radically rethinks the Genji by focusing on the figure of the house-encompassing both fictionalized images of mansions and their inhabitants"-- Provided by publisher
Subject 880-01 Murasaki Shikibu, 978?- Genji monogatari.
SUBJECT 880-01/$1 紫式部, 978?- 源氏物語
Genji monogatari (Murasaki Shikibu) fast
Subject Dwellings in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Genealogy in literature.
Japanese literature -- Heian period, 794-1185 -- History and criticism
Dwellings in literature
Genealogy in literature
Japanese literature -- Heian period
Marriage in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781684176120
1684176123