... space of speaker, that modern wondering space / flash lights from wild gardens. use of ekphrasis here facilitates mobility and exchange: a delicate landscape with its gentle expression of rose, / pink is exchanged for a picture dominated by black Genji headdresses and remorse, sadness they represent. (In twelfth-century Genji Monogatari Emaki scrolls, which illustrate Murasaki's novel, hats are prominent as black shapes.) picture of ...
Tópico(s): Visual Culture and Art Theory
2008 - University of Chicago Press | Chicago Review
... of the contemporary. One can say that the novel or long fictional prose, seen in this light, has been a global form these past two centuries—or four, or eight, depending on one's scholarly orientation in nineteenth-century, early modern, or medieval studies.5 The semantic range of protonovelistic forms goes back even further to encompass midrash in Hebrew, fabula in Latin, monogatari in Japanese, qissa in Arabic, kadambari in Sanskrit, ...
Tópico(s): Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
2020 - Johns Hopkins University Press | New Literary History
... eight essays that examine different aspects of Genji monogatari from a "philosophical perspective," is the sixth in ... analysis of the first 40 chapters of Genji monogatari. As Tyler himself admits, however, it sets "aside ... s own assertion, that trying to grasp Genji monogatari as a whole "resembles striving to capture one ...
Tópico(s): Flannery O'Connor and Thomas Merton
2021 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of Japanese Studies
... 111.00, cloth; $45.00, E-book. Genji monogatari (Tale of Genji) might seem to be as ... representation of an ideal, alternative world in Taketori monogatari, Genji, and also the poetry of Bai Juyi ( ...
Tópico(s): Asian Culture and Media Studies
2023 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of Japanese Studies
... 2015. Shisha no sho is a type of monogatari-novel set in ancient Japan and organized around ...
Tópico(s): Asian Culture and Media Studies
2018 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of Japanese Studies
... Kinugasa's 1953 classic Jigokumon relating to Heike monogatari (Tale of the Heike, thirteenth century), and on ...
Tópico(s): Japanese History and Culture
2018 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of Japanese Studies
... drama, Western poetry, Classical Chinese poetry, and Japanese monogatari, the majority of texts fall into the category ...
Tópico(s): Chinese history and philosophy
2021 - University of Arkansas Press | Style