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Perfumed sleeves and tangled hair : body, woman, and desire in medieval Japanese narratives / Rajyashree Pandey

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Pandey, Rajyashree, 1953-
Published
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Physical Description
xii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
Rethinking body, woman, sex, and agency in medieval Japanese narratives -- The erotics of the body in the Tale of Genji -- The erotics of power in the Tale of Genji -- Woman, love, poetry, and enlightenment : Izumi Shikibu as topos -- "Meditating on the impure body" : the generic transformations of a medieval topos.
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ISBN
9780824853549 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0824853547 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index.
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