Unbinding The Pillow Book : the many lives of a Japanese classic / Gergana Ivanova.
| Author/creator | Ivanova, Gergana E. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Columbia University Press, [2018] |
| Description | xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | What is The Pillow Book? -- (Re)constructing the text and early modern scholarship -- From a guide to court life to a guide to the pleasure quarters -- The Pillow Book for early modern female readers -- Shaping the woman writer -- New markets for Japanese classics. |
| Abstract | Gergana Ivanova explores how The Pillow Book and its author have been read from the seventeenth century to the present. She shows how various ideologies have influenced the text and shaped interactions among its different versions, in the first book-length study in English of the reception history of Sei Shōnagon. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-213) and index. |
| ISBN | 9780231187985 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 023118798X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |