The Sarashina Diary

A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53745-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Translations from the Asian Classics

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Arntzen, Sonja

Ito, Moriyuki

It?, Moriyuki

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Editionen, Kritische Editionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: A Collaborative Project, by Sonja Arntzen
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Translation and Technical Matters
Introduction and Study, by Sonja Arntzen and Ito Moriyuki
1. Text and Author
2. The Relationship of Theme and Structure
3. Dreams and Religious Consciousness
4. A Child's Viewpoint and Layers of Narration
5. Text and Intertext: The Sarashina Diary and The Tale of Genji
6. A Life Composed in Counterpoint
Sarashina Diary
Afterword, by Ito Moriyuki
Appendix 1. Family and Social Connections
Appendix 2. Maps
Bibliography
Index

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Über Autor(innen)

Sugawara no Takasue no Musume Sugawara no Takasue no:
Takasue's Daughter, or Sugawara no Takasue no musume, was a Japanese author. "Sugawara no Takasue no musume" means a daughter of Sugawara no Takasue. Her real name is unknown.Arntzen Sonja:
Sonja Arntzen is professor emerita of Literature at the University of Toronto. She is a scholar of Pre-modern Japanese literature, history, religion, thought, and classical Japanese language. She has translated The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan (U. of Michigan, 1997). With Columbia University Press, she has published Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology: A Zen Poet of Medieval Japan (1987), Kana Classic: An Electronic Guide to Learning Classical Japanese Kana Writing (1998), and The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan.Ito Moriyuki:
Moriyuki Itô holds a PhD from Tôhoku University, (1995). He taught from 1984 to 2005 at Hirosaki University. He is currently professor of Japanese Literature at Gakushûin Women's College in Tokyo. He has published many articles on the Sarashina Diary over a period of thirty years. His Sarashina nikki Kenkyû, (Research on the Sarashina Diary) published in 1995 is recognized as a definitive work on the subject.Sonja Arntzen is professor emerita of literature at the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta. She is the author of Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology: A Zen Poet of Medieval Japan and The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan.

Ito Moriyuki is professor of Japanese literature at Gakushuin Women's College in Tokyo. His book Sarashina nikki kenkyu (Research on the Sarashina Diary) is recognized as a definitive work on the subject, and he has just published Sarashina nikki no enkinho (Perspective in the Sarashina Diary).