Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories : Narrative, Ritual, and Royal Authority from the Chronicles of Japan to the Tale of the Heike.
After 'The Tale of Genji' (c.1000), the greatest work of classical Japanese literature is the historical narrative 'The Tale of the Heike' (13th-14th centuries). In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on the Heike narratives, this study draws attention to a range of problem...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2007.
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| ISBN: | 9780804767644 0804767645 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; abbreviations; a note to the reader; hidden texts; the yin and the yang of power; recovering the daoist text; royalizing the realm and the ritualization of violence; peripheries of power; china in the medieval imaginary; reimagining late heian and early medieval space; the apocryphal history of kiyomori; epilogue; notes; bibliography; glossary of chinese characters; index.