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Hardcover Knowing the Amorous Man: A History of Scholarship on Tales of Ise Book

ISBN: 0674073355

ISBN13: 9780674073357

Knowing the Amorous Man: A History of Scholarship on Tales of Ise

(Book #355 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)

Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari) is traditionally identified as one of the most important Japanese literary texts of the Heian period (794-1185). Since its enshrinement in the classical literary canon as early as the eleventh century, the work has also been the object of intensive study and extensive commentary. Its idiosyncratic form--125 loosely connected episodes recounting the life and loves of an anonymous courtier--and mysterious authorship have...

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