The Bridge Of Dreams by Haruo Shirane
A Poetics of The Tale of Genji
A close literary study that reads a classical Japanese narrative through the aesthetics and mechanics of court poetry, showing how seasonal images, linked-verse exchanges, and dreamlike moments knit episodes and emotions together into a continuous poetic consciousness. It traces the intertextual networks of waka and prose, argues that poetic diction and dream imagery function as structural bridges between scenes and characters, and illuminates the cultural ideas about feeling, memory, and narration that underlie the work’s enduring power.
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- Published
- 1987
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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