The Disaster Of The Third Princess

Author : Royall Tyler
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921536675
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Disaster of the Third Princess written by Royall Tyler and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These seven essays by the most recent English translator of The Tale of Genji emphasize three major interpretive issues. What is the place of the hero (Hikaru Genji) in the work? What story gives the narrative underlying continuity and form? And how does the closing section of the tale (especially the ten 'Uji chapters') relate to what precedes it? Written over a period of nine years, the essays suggest fresh, thought-provoking perspectives on Japan¿s greatest literary classic.

Author : Yan Guilai
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1647819946
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drunk Arrogant Third Princess written by Yan Guilai and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After returning from his defeat, he received news that he was going to get married! She dashed to grab the bride, but found out that she didn't even know him! This bewitching young man was still insisting on pulling her along as he eloped! At the critical moment, the mysterious man kidnapped her! Ask her: Woman, have you forgotten about me? This wasn't the end. The Second Prince had pestered her again to fulfill her promise from back then! Heavens, three years ago, who had she sworn an oath to?

Author : James McMullen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190654996
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji written by James McMullen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji is variously read as a work of feminist protest, the world's first psychological novel and even as a post-modern masterpiece. Commonly seen as Japan's greatest literary work, its literary, cultural, and historical significance has been thoroughly acknowledged. As a work focused on the complexities of Japanese court life in the Heian period, however, the The Tale of Genji has never before been the subject of philosophical investigation. The essays in this volume address this oversight, arguing that the work contains much that lends itself to philosophical analysis. The authors of this volume demonstrate that The Tale of Genji confronts universal themes such as the nature and exercise of political power, freedom, individual autonomy and agency, renunciation, gender, and self-expression; it raises deep concerns about aesthetics and the role of art, causality, the relation of man to nature, memory, and death itself. Although Murasaki Shikibu may not express these themes in the text as explicitly philosophical problems, the complex psychological tensions she describes and her observations about human conduct reveal an underlying framework of philosophical assumptions about the world of the novel that have implications for how we understand these concerns beyond the world of Genji. Each essay in this collection reveals a part of this framework, situating individual themes within larger philosophical and historical contexts. In doing so, the essays both challenge prevailing views of the novel and each other, offering a range of philosophical interpretations of the text and emphasizing the The Tale of Genji's place as a masterful work of literature with broad philosophical significance.

Author : Johnathan Flowers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793626715
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mono No Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism written by Johnathan Flowers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism argues that gender is best understood as a felt sense of the organization of the human body. Through Japanese aesthetics and American pragmatism, this book argues that re-understanding gender as an affect, or a feeling, can expand the ways that gender is understood, enacted, and theorized in experience.

Author : Edith Sarra
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684176123
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unreal Houses written by Edith Sarra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Tale of Genji (ca. 1008), by noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, is known for its sophisticated renderings of fictional characters’ minds and its critical perspectives on the lives of the aristocracy of eleventh-century Japan. Unreal Houses radically rethinks the Genji by focusing on the figure of the house. Edith Sarra examines the narrative’s fictionalized images of aristocratic mansions and its representation of the people who inhabit them, exploring how key characters in the Genji think about houses in both the architectural and genealogical sense of the word. Through close readings of the Genji and other Heian narratives, Unreal Houses elucidates the literary fabrication of social, architectural, and affective spaces and shows how the figure of the house contributes to the structuring of narrative sequences and the expression of relational nuances among fictional characters. Combining literary analysis with the history of gender, marriage, and the built environment, Sarra opens new perspectives on the architectonics of the Genji and the feminine milieu that midwifed what some have called the world’s first novel."

Author : Xi BeiXiaoMei
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1649919964
Total Pages : 867 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctor Princess Is Prickly written by Xi BeiXiaoMei and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Li's parents, Li Yu Chu, was framed for infidelity, caged and sunk. When he returned, his personality had changed drastically. He had beaten up his stepmother and abused his own younger sister. His methods had been extremely ruthless. What a joke, how could she dress up as a sloppy young miss that could be easily bullied! Rumors had it that the Li family's eldest daughter had become a yaksha and was carrying a prostitute who didn't know who her father was. No one dared to marry her! I am the mother Yaksha I am proud, I bring the oil bottle I am proud of! As for who would dare to marry — what was the point of having two men lined up in front of Li's house? The little bun jumped out, "Mother, I'll choose your man!" Pick and choose... Li Yu Chu smacked his lips and asked, "Bastard, and you chose such a cripple for your mother?" "He said that he can eat soft food in the kitchen and bring children. Mother, I think it's suitable for you!"

Author : Liu LiHuo
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1636450873
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Princess Goes Autopsy Again written by Liu LiHuo and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a female medical examiner? One must go to the imperial court and down to the martial arts world. Obtaining a corpse, fighting a treacherous official, and fighting to the death with courage! She, a modern medical examiner, had become the third incompetent young master of the General's Estate as soon as she had transmigrated. Third Young Master? That was what she used to save her life while disguised as a man! Impotence? She was the one who kept a low profile and hid her true colors! He had wanted to stay away from trouble, but he was pestered by a certain Ghost King who was pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger. He had stolen his heart and was now a passerby. It was said that the Ghost King was ugly and silly. He had been a proton outside for ten years, and was afraid of death. But in fact, the angry roar of a certain woman was all fake! "You don't match up with the rumors, I want to return the goods!" "Return?" A certain man smiled elegantly, "You wish!"

Author : Murasaki Shikibu
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101097396
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tale of Genji written by Murasaki Shikibu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abridged edition of the world’s first novel, in a translation that is “likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come” (The Wall Street Journal) A Penguin Classic Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel—and is certainly one of its finest. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an emperor. He is a passionate character whose tempestuous nature, family circumstances, love affairs, alliances, and shifting political fortunes form the core of this magnificent epic. Royall Tyler’s superior translation is detailed, poetic, and superbly true to the Japanese original while allowing the modern reader to appreciate it as a contemporary treasure. In this deftly abridged edition, Tyler focuses on the early chapters, which vividly evoke Genji as a young man and leave him at his first moment of triumph. This edition also includes detailed notes, glossaries, character lists, and chronologies.

Author : Qing Mu
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1636544029
Total Pages : 1393 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agent Princess Too Beautiful written by Qing Mu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 1393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his eyes open, what was he planning to do in this ancient room?

Author : Edward R. Drott
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824851501
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan written by Edward R. Drott and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long remarked on the frequency with which Japanese myths portrayed gods (kami) as old men or okina. Many of these “sacred elders” came to be featured in premodern theater, most prominently in Noh. In the closing decades of the twentieth-century, as the number of Japan’s senior citizens climbed steadily, the sacred elder of premodern myth became a subject of renewed interest and was seen by some as evidence that the elderly in Japan had once been accorded a level of respect unknown in recent times. In Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan, Edward Drott charts the shifting sets of meanings ascribed to old age in medieval Japan, tracing the processes by which the aged body was transformed into a symbol of otherworldly power and the cultural, political, and religious circumstances that inspired its reimagination. Drott examines how the aged body was used to conceptualize forms of difference and to convey religious meanings in a variety of texts: official chronicles, literary works, Buddhist legends and didactic tales. In early Japan, old age was most commonly seen as a mark of negative distinction, one that represented the ugliness, barrenness, and pollution against which the imperial court sought to define itself. From the late-Heian period, however, certain Buddhist authors seized upon the aged body as a symbolic medium though which to challenge traditional dichotomies between center and margin, high and low, and purity and defilement, crafting narratives that associated aged saints and avatars with the cults, lineages, sacred sites, or religious practices these authors sought to promote. Contributing to a burgeoning literature on religion and the body, Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan applies approaches developed in gender studies to “denaturalize” old age as a matter of representation, identity, and performance. By tracking the ideological uses of old age in premodern Japan, this work breaks new ground, revealing the role of religion in the construction of generational categories and the ways in which religious ideas and practices can serve not only to naturalize, but also challenge “common sense” about the body.