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Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji - Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,893
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Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji - Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover): James McMullen

Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji - Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover)

James McMullen

Series: Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Lit

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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.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Lit
Release date: June 2019
Editors: James McMullen (Fellow Emeritus)
Dimensions: 219 x 147 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-065497-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
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LSN: 0-19-065497-X
Barcode: 9780190654979

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