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The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of the "Tale of Genji"


Author(s): Shirane, Haruo
ISBN10:  0804717192
ISBN13:  9780804717199
Format:  Paperback
Pub. Date:  7/1/1987
Publisher(s): Stanford Univ Pr

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Note to the Reader xi
Introduction xv
PART I: THE AESTHETICS OF POWER
Kingship and Transgression
3(14)
The ``Exile of the Young Noble,''
3(1)
Kingship
4(4)
The Golden Age
8(2)
The Genji
10(2)
Transgression and Renewal
12(5)
The Poetics of Exile
17(7)
Flowering Fortunes
24(19)
Michinaga's Shadow
24(4)
The Rokujo-in
28(2)
Miyabi and Mono no aware
30(5)
Darkness at Noon
35(8)
PART II: HIDDEN FLOWERS
Love, Marriage, and the Romance: Young Lavender
43(13)
Imperial Consorts
43(2)
Ariwara no Narihira
45(2)
Unorthodox Marriage
47(4)
The Three Ranks
51(1)
Romantic Reincarnation
52(4)
Narrative Form, Polyphony, and the Social Periphery: The Broom Tree Chapters
56(32)
Augmentation
56(3)
Textual Studies
59(3)
Social Difference: Utsusemi
62(4)
Nature and Social Status: Yugao
66(2)
Comic Counterpoint: Suetsumuhana, Gen no naishi
68(3)
The Vulnerable Hero
71(2)
History, Myth, and Women's Literature: The Akashi Lady
Provincial Governors
73(4)
Mythic Echoes
77(3)
The Lady of Winter
80(4)
Women's Writing
84(4)
Pseudo-Incest: The Tamakazura Sequence
88(19)
Wicked Stepmothers and Erotic Stepmothers
88(3)
The Resistant Stepdaughter
91(3)
Pseudo-Daughters
94(2)
Reluctant Fatherhood
96(4)
A Stepson
100(7)
PART III: LYRIC TRAGEDY
Polygamous Triangles
107(13)
The ``Unmaking'' of the Heroine
111(2)
Other Voices: The Rokujo Lady
113(3)
Variations: The Yugiri Sequence
116(4)
The Lyric Mode and the Lament
120(13)
The Lyric Mode
120(3)
Beauty in Death
123(5)
The Four Seasons
128(5)
Analogous Relationships: Fallen Princesses
133(18)
Fallen Princesses
134(6)
Oigimi
140(5)
Nyobo and Freedom of Choice
145(3)
Nakanokimi and Orthodox Marriage
148(3)
Repetition and Difference: Ukifune
151(18)
The Disadvantaged Stepdaughter
152(3)
The Surrogate
155(1)
Wandering: Sasurai
156(5)
Resurrection
161(3)
The Eclipse of the Hero
164(5)
PART IV: THE SPIRITUAL QUEST
Karmic Destiny: Genji
169(14)
The Light of the Buddha
170(2)
Sin and Retribution
172(5)
Attachment
177(6)
Darkness of the Heart: The Eighth Prince, Kaoru, and Ukifune
183(22)
Darkness of the Heart
184(2)
The Floating Bridge of Dreams
186(7)
The Buddhist Paradigm
193(6)
Temptation
199(6)
Appendix A: Principal Characters in the `Genji' 205(10)
Appendix B: A Note on the Author and the Texts of the `Genji Monogatari' 215(12)
Notes 227(22)
Selected Bibliography 249(16)
Index 265

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