| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages) : illustrations. |
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Translations from the Asian classics |
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Translations from the Asian classics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Text and author -- The relationship of theme and structure -- Dreams and religious consciousness -- A child's viewpoint and layers of narration -- Text and intertext: the Sarashina diary and the Tale of Genji -- A life composed in counterpoint. |
| Summary |
A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the capital. She began a diary that she would continue to write for the next forty years and compile later in life, bringing lasting prestige to her family. Some aspects of the author's life and text seem curiously modern. She married late and identified more as a writer than as a wife and mother. Enthralled by romantic fiction, she wrote extensively about the disillusioning blows that reality can deal to fantasy. The Sarashina Diary is a portrait of the writer as reader and a tribute to the ... . |
| Language |
Translated from the Japanese. |
| Subject |
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008- -- Diaries.
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Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008- (OCoLC)fst01849663
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Authors, Japanese -- Heian period, 794-1185 -- Diaries.
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Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008- -- Diaries.
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ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Japanese.
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Authors, Japanese -- Heian period.
(OCoLC)fst01711023
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| Chronological Term |
794 - 1185
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| Genre/Form |
Diaries. (OCoLC)fst01423794
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| Added Author |
Arntzen, Sonja, 1945- writer of introduction, translator.
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Itō, Moriyuki, 1954- writer of introduction, translator.
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| Added Title |
Sarashina nikki. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008- Sarashina nikki. English. Sarashina diary. New York : Columbia University Press, [2014] 9780231167185 (DLC) 2013044356 (OCoLC)863195540 |
| ISBN |
9780231537452 (electronic bk.) |
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023153745X (electronic bk.) |
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