Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
ISBN: 978-0-472-03832-9
Verlag: University of Michigan Press
The Tale of Genji provided Akiko with her conception of herself as a writer and inspired many of her most significant literary projects. She, in turn, refurbished the tale as a modern novel, pioneered some of the most promising avenues of modern academic research on Genji, and, to a great extent, gave the text the prominence it now enjoys as a translated classic. Through Akiko's work Genji became, in fact as well as in name, an exemplum of that most modern of literary genres, the novel. In delineating this important aspect of Akiko's life and her bibliography, this study aims to show that facile descriptions of Akiko as a ""poetess of passion"" or ""new woman"" will no longer suffice.