The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji by Norma FieldCall Number: PL788.4.G43 F5 1987
ISBN: 9780691066912
Publication Date: 1987-05-21
Field draws on the riches of both Japanese and Western Scholarship, as well as on her own sensitive reading of the Tale. Included are discussions of the social, psychological, and political dimensions of the aesthetics of this novel, with emphasis on the crucial relationship of erotic and political concerns to prose fictions.