Foremost among Japanese literary classics and one of the world's
earliest novels, the Tale of Genji was written around the year A.D.
1000 by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman from a declining aristocratic
family. For sophisticaion and insight, Western prose fiction was to
wait centuries to rival her work. Norma Field explore the shifting
configurations of the Tale, showing how the hero Genji is made and
unmade by a series of heroines. Professor Field draws on the riches
of both Japanesse and Western scholarship, as well as on her own
sensitive reading of the Tale. Included are discussions of the
social, psychological, and political dimensions of the aesthetics
of this novel, with emphasis on the crucial relationship of erotic
and political concerns to prose fiction. Norma Field is Assistant
Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the
University of Chicago. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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