The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of ‘The Tale of Genji’Stanford University Press, 1987 - 276 ページ The Bridge of Dreams is a brilliant reading of The Tale of Genji that succeeds both as a sophisticated work of literary criticism and as an introduction this world masterpiece. Taking account of current literary theory and a long tradition of Japanese commentary, the author guides both the general reader and the specialist to a new appreciation of the structure and poetics of this complex and often seemingly baffling work. The Tale of Genji, written in the early eleventh century by a court lady, Murasaki Shikibu, is Japan's most outstanding work of prose fiction. Though bearing a striking resemblance to the modern psychological novel, the Genji was not conceived and written as a single work and then published and distributed to a mass audience as novels are today. Instead, it was issued in limited installments, sequence by sequence, to an extremely circumscribed, aristocratic audience. This study discusses the growth and evolution of the Genji and the manner in which recurrent concerns--political, social, and religious--are developed, subverted, and otherwise transformed as the work evolves from one stage to another. Throughout, the author analyzes the Genji in the context of those literary works and conventions that Murasaki explicitly or implicitly presupposed her contemporary audience to know, and reveals how the Genji works both within and against the larger literary and sociopolitical tradition. The book contains a color frontispiece by a seventeenth-century artist and eight pages of black-and-white illustrations from a twelfth-century scroll. Two appendixes present an analysis of biographical and textual problems and a detailed index of principal characters. |
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Kingship and Transgression | 3 |
The Poetics of Exile | 17 |
Flowering Fortunes | 24 |
Young Lavender | 43 |
The Tamakazura Sequence | 88 |
Polygamous Triangles | 107 |
The Lyric Mode and the Lament | 120 |
Fallen Princesses | 133 |
Genji | 169 |
The Eighth Prince | 183 |
Principal Characters in the Genji | 205 |
A Note on the Author and | 215 |
Notes | 227 |
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Ukifune | 151 |
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Agemaki Akashi lady Akikonomu appears aristocratic Asagao autumn becomes Buddhist capital characters Chūjō contrast court crown prince death deceased diary early chapters Eighth Prince Emperor Daigo episode exile father Fuji no uraba Fujitsubo lady Fujiwara Fujiwara no Michinaga Genji monogatari Hahakigi Heian Heian period hero heroine Hikaru Genji Hotaru Ise monogatari Kaoru Kashiwagi kenkyū kimi Kiritsubo kita no kata Kokinshu Kumoi no kari Maboroshi marriage married Michinaga Minamoto Minister Miotsukushi miya miyabi Momiji mono no aware mother Motoori Norinaga Murasaki Shikibu Myōbu Nakanokimi narrative nikki Niou Norinaga nyōbō Ōigimi poem poetic poetry political Princess Ochiba principal wife Pure Land rank Reizei emperor reveals Rokujō lady Rokujō-in romance Sakaki shū social Sōzu spirit stepmother Suetsumuhana Suma Sumiyoshi Suzaku emperor take holy vows Tamakazura sequence Tenarai Third Princess throne tion Ukifune Ukifune's Usugumo Utsubo monogatari Utsusemi waka Wakamurasaki Wakana woman women Yadorigi young Murasaki Yugao Yūgiri