Unreal Houses: Character, Gender, and Genealogy in the Tale of Genji

by Edith Sarra

The Tale of Genji (ca. 1008), by noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, is known for its sophisticated renderings of fictional characters' minds and its critical perspectives on the lives of the aristocracy of eleventh-century Japan. Unreal Houses radically rethinks the Genji by focusing on the figure of the house. Edith Sarra examines the narrative's fictionalized images of aristocratic mansions and its representation of the people who inhabit them, exploring...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674244435
• ISBN13: 9780674244436
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"