Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki’s Tosa Diary As History And Fiction Gustav Heldt Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Essays Literary Reference

Drawing On Both Contemporaneous Historical Sources And Modern Literary Criticism Navigating Narratives Offers Unique Insights Into Heian Japan Through A Close Reading Of One Its Most Enigmatic Consequential Texts Named After The Province Once Governed By Creator Ki No Tsurayuki (D 946) Tosa Nikki (The Diary) Purports To Be Record Voyage Kept An Anonymous Woman In Entourage Ex-Governor Returning Capital This Split Between Fictional Narrator Author Has Usually Led Readers Place Diary Privileging Those Two Figures With Result That Been Valued Primarily As Either First Woman’s Memoir Or Last Aesthetic Manifesto Man Whose Writings Shaped Japanese Poetic Tradition For Centuries Afterward Attempts Steer Away From Anachronistic Assumptions Author-Centric Readings Informing These Accounts Focusing Instead Diary’s Reception Parody Earliest Heldt Argues It Merits Attention Discursive Practices Representational Conventions Non-Elite Social Contexts Illuminates World’s Short Novelistic Work Fiction Σελίδες: 360 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0718 Διαστάσεις: 15 2X15 2Cm