Unbinding The Pillow Book

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231547609
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Unbinding The Pillow Book by : Gergana Ivanova

Download or read book Unbinding The Pillow Book written by Gergana Ivanova and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the Japanese canon. Yet it has also been marginalized within Japanese literature for reasons including the gender of its author, the work’s complex textual history, and its thematic and stylistic depth. In Unbinding The Pillow Book, Gergana Ivanova offers a reception history of The Pillow Book and its author from the seventeenth century to the present that shows how various ideologies have influenced the text and shaped interactions among its different versions. Ivanova examines how and why The Pillow Book has been read over the centuries, placing it in the multiple contexts in which it has been rewritten, including women’s education, literary scholarship, popular culture, “pleasure quarters,” and the formation of the modern nation-state. Drawing on scholarly commentaries, erotic parodies, instruction manuals for women, high school textbooks, and comic books, she considers its outsized role in ideas about Japanese women writers. Ultimately, Ivanova argues for engaging the work’s plurality in order to achieve a clearer understanding of The Pillow Book and the importance it has held for generations of readers, rather than limiting it to a definitive version or singular meaning. The first book-length study in English of the reception history of Sei Shōnagon, Unbinding The Pillow Book sheds new light on the construction of gender and sexuality, how women’s writing has been used to create readerships, and why ancient texts continue to play vibrant roles in contemporary cultural production.

The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549237
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle impressions. Lady Shonagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shonagon so eloquently relates. Featuring reflections on royal and religious ceremonies, nature, conversation, poetry, and many other subjects, The Pillow Book is an intimate look at the experiences and outlook of the Heian upper class, further enriched by Ivan Morris's extensive notes and critical contextualization.

The Pillow Book

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ISBN 13 : 9780892810376
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Pillow Book by : Nik Douglas

Download or read book The Pillow Book written by Nik Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Country Pillow Book

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Publisher : Dram Books
ISBN 13 : 0954856716
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis A Country Pillow Book by : David Kavanagh

Download or read book A Country Pillow Book written by David Kavanagh and published by Dram Books. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique six-year compilation of British rural news, interspersed with the author's own observations on birds, mammals, fish, and aspects of Britain's countryside today. Most rural subjects are covered in a comprehensive snapshot of country life at the start of the new Millennium. From December 1999 to February 2006, scores of different issues are compressed into hundreds of bite-sized, easily digested articles. From angling to animal rights campaigns, foxhunting to farming, game shooting to wildlife conservation, a diverse collection of views, comment and advice is presented. The batty and the bizarre also get a look-in, as do the controversial and the downright crazy. With its packed pages, A Country Pillow Book could become a bedside companion for the rural researcher or a useful tool for the country-loving insomniac.

The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai

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Publisher : Tinder Press
ISBN 13 : 0755389271
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai by : Barbara Lazar

Download or read book The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai written by Barbara Lazar and published by Tinder Press. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am Kozaisho: Fifth daughter, Woman-For-Play, teller of stories, lover, wife and Flower Samurai. In the rich, dazzling, brutal world of twelfth century Japan, one young girl begins her epic journey, from the warmth of family to the Village of Outcasts. Marked out by an auspicious omen, she is trained in the ancient warrior arts of the samurai. But it is through the power of storytelling that she learns to fight her fate, twisting her life onto a path even she could not have imagined...

The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria

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Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429908467
Total Pages : 372 pages
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Book Synopsis The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria by : Laura Joh Rowland

Download or read book The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria written by Laura Joh Rowland and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria, Laura Joh Rowland once again has written a book in which "an exotic setting, seventeenth-century Japan, and a splendid mystery...make for grand entertainment" (New York Daily News). In the carefully ordered world of seventeenth-century Japan, the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter is a place where men of all classes can drink, revel, and enjoy the favors of beautiful courtesans. But on a cold winter's dawn, Sano Ichiro--the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People--must visit Yoshiwara on a most unpleasant mission. Within a house of assignation reserved for the wealthiest, most prominent men, a terrible murder has occurred. In a room that reeks of liquor and sex, the shogun's cousin and heir, Lord Mitsuyoshi, lies dead, a flowered hairpin embedded in his eye, in the bed of the famous courtesan, Lady Wisteria. The shogun demands quick justice, but Sano's path is blocked by many obstacles, including the disappearance of Wisteria and her pillow book, a diary that may contain clues. The politics of court life, the whims of the shogun, and interference by his long time rival, Edo's Chief Police Commissioner Hoshina, also hinder Sano in his search for the killer. Sano's wife, Lady Reiko, is eager to help him, but he fears what she may uncover. When suspicion of murder falls upon Sano himself, he must find the real murderer to solve the case and clear his name.

Cora Fry's Pillow Book

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466884134
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Cora Fry's Pillow Book by : Rosellen Brown

Download or read book Cora Fry's Pillow Book written by Rosellen Brown and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the persona of Cora Fry, a wife and mother living in a small New Hampshire town, Rosellen Brown explores the ambivalent ties of love, loyalty, marriage, and family in a series of related poems. This volume includes the entire text of Cora Fry (1977), a kind of dramatic monologue, written in spare, simple lines, which describes the young woman's daily life and troubled marriage. A sequel of newer poems, Cora Fry's Pillow Book (1994), confronts the challenges that come with a woman's growth toward middle age, reflecting an older Cora's place in her family, community, and the larger world.

Worlding Sei Shônagon

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Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776619799
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Worlding Sei Shônagon by : Valerie Henitiuk

Download or read book Worlding Sei Shônagon written by Valerie Henitiuk and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2012-06-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Makura no Sôshi, or The Pillow Book as it is generally known in English, is a collection of personal reflections and anecdotes about life in the Japanese royal court composed around the turn of the eleventh century by a woman known as Sei Shônagon. Its opening section, which begins haru wa akebono, or “spring, dawn,” is arguably the single most famous passage in Japanese literature. Throughout its long life, The Pillow Book has been translated countless times. It has captured the European imagination with its lyrical style, compelling images and the striking personal voice of its author. Worlding Sei Shônagon guides the reader through the remarkable translation history of The Pillow Book in the West, gathering almost fifty translations of the “spring, dawn” passage, which span one-hundred-and-thirty-five years and sixteen languages. Many of the translations are made readily available for the first time in this study. The versions collected in Worlding Sei Shônagon are an enlightening example of the many ways in which translations can differ from their source text, undermining the idea of translation as the straightforward transfer of meaning from one language to another, one culture to another. By tracing the often convoluted trajectory through which a once wholly foreign literary work becomes domesticated—or resists domestication—this compilation also exposes the various historical, ideological or other forces that inevitably shape our experience of literature, for better or for worse.

This Is All

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407098365
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis This Is All by : Aidan Chambers

Download or read book This Is All written by Aidan Chambers and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitled The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn this is the story of Cordelia from the time she is 15 until she is 20. She is pregnant and plans to give this account to her daughter on her 16th birthday so that they can share their youth together. She chooses the old and famous Japanese book, 'The Pillow Book' by Sei Shonagon, as a model in order to include all kinds of things she has already written as well as the episodes and thoughts she has now as she compiles her book. She tells of her mother (who died when Cordelia was 5) of her father and her aunt Doris (who marry when she is 16), of her love for William Blacklin, the boy with whom she chooses to have her first sex - and with whom she falls deeply in love. She writes about Julie Martin her teacher who helps her spiritually, describes her love affair with an older married man and her terrifying sexual experience with an unbalanced young man who is obsessed with her. The book includes thoughts on being a women, on poetry, music, reading and writing, on being pregnant and finally of her marriage to William. This Is All is an anthology, written in six 'books' of Cordelia's adolescent life, by turns funny, poignant, sad, exciting, fascinating ironic and truthful about topics that parents often do not tell their children. It is a richly entertaining and challenging read.

The Book Under My Pillow

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Publisher : One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9381576165
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Book Under My Pillow by : Murugesan Venkatapathi

Download or read book The Book Under My Pillow written by Murugesan Venkatapathi and published by One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best things come in small packages... self-help, motivation, philosophy, social commentary and humour, are all rolled into this little book of quotes and snippets. Ideal for the office shelf, bedtime reading or stress-busting short breaks, this handy, easy-to-carry volume, does not have any one lesson to share, but many ? which one can come back to again and again whenever one wishes to. It is not a one-time read but an enjoyable multiple reading venture with assorted quotes from some well-known and some not-so-well-known people, in addition to the author's insightful and sometimes irreverent, snippets. Some of the quotes hit hard and compel us to put on our thinking caps, while others are light and funny, but always eye-opening. Some can be put up on our screens to motivate ourselves while others just may not resonate with a person right away, but nevertheless make one reflect. This is truly The Book Under My Pillow...