The Riverside Counselor’s Stories

The Riverside Counselor’s Stories
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 0804712603
ISBN-13 : 9780804712606
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Book Synopsis The Riverside Counselor’s Stories by : Robert L. Backus

Download or read book The Riverside Counselor’s Stories written by Robert L. Backus and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of the Tsutsumi Chu-nagon Monogatari. Nine of these ten short stories were written in the 11th and 12th centuries, presumably by women of Japan's court aristocracy. Like Lady Murasaki's The Tale of Genji, which predates them, several short narratives pursue romantic entanglements of Heian courtiers. But unlike Murasaki's classic, some of the stories satirize male characters cast in the Genji mold, and others ridicule social convention.


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