Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers

By: Barbara Stevenson

Book Overview

The essays in this collection suggest the similar, and also strikingly dissimilar, strategies of women working within medieval courtly cultures to mitigate traditional patriarchal constraints. Many of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312221673
• ISBN13: 9780312221676
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"