Images from the Past: Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature

This volume brings together scholars from different backgrounds and career stages to rethink the role and scope of intertextuality in the context of premodern Japan. From antiquity to the rise of modernity, originality through repetition persists as a staple in the literary, performative, and artist...

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spellingShingle Baba Bunkō
Book indexes
Buddhism
Chinese novels
Classical Chinese literature
Commentaries
Court Diary
Dōgen
Edo literature
Fantastic literature
Female enlightenment
Fujiwara no Shunzei (Toshinari)
Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie)
Gender dynamics
Genji monogatari
Inner scriptures
Intertextuality
Ise monogatari
Japanese poetry
Kabuki
Kana literature
Katsura Bunji I
Kawara-no-in
Ki no Tsurayuki, Kagerō nikki
Kokin wakashū
Layers of narration in intertextuality
Metatextuality
Morishima Chūryō
Mythologies
Nihon ryōiki
Nō theatre
Nun Abutsu
Outer writings
Premodern Japanese literature
Re-interpretation
Religion
Roland Barthes
San’yūtei Enchō
Sarashina nikki
Sarayashiki
Sharebon
Shinkokinshū
Sūtras
Temporality
Text
Tsuruya Nanboku IV
Utatane
Waka
Yomihon
Zen
thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500
5TFP-JP-A
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
Images from the Past: Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature
title Images from the Past: Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature
title_full Images from the Past: Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature
title_fullStr Images from the Past: Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature
title_full_unstemmed Images from the Past: Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature
title_short Images from the Past: Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature
title_sort images from the past intertextuality in japanese premodern literature
topic Baba Bunkō
Book indexes
Buddhism
Chinese novels
Classical Chinese literature
Commentaries
Court Diary
Dōgen
Edo literature
Fantastic literature
Female enlightenment
Fujiwara no Shunzei (Toshinari)
Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie)
Gender dynamics
Genji monogatari
Inner scriptures
Intertextuality
Ise monogatari
Japanese poetry
Kabuki
Kana literature
Katsura Bunji I
Kawara-no-in
Ki no Tsurayuki, Kagerō nikki
Kokin wakashū
Layers of narration in intertextuality
Metatextuality
Morishima Chūryō
Mythologies
Nihon ryōiki
Nō theatre
Nun Abutsu
Outer writings
Premodern Japanese literature
Re-interpretation
Religion
Roland Barthes
San’yūtei Enchō
Sarashina nikki
Sarayashiki
Sharebon
Shinkokinshū
Sūtras
Temporality
Text
Tsuruya Nanboku IV
Utatane
Waka
Yomihon
Zen
thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500
5TFP-JP-A
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
topic_facet Baba Bunkō
Book indexes
Buddhism
Chinese novels
Classical Chinese literature
Commentaries
Court Diary
Dōgen
Edo literature
Fantastic literature
Female enlightenment
Fujiwara no Shunzei (Toshinari)
Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie)
Gender dynamics
Genji monogatari
Inner scriptures
Intertextuality
Ise monogatari
Japanese poetry
Kabuki
Kana literature
Katsura Bunji I
Kawara-no-in
Ki no Tsurayuki, Kagerō nikki
Kokin wakashū
Layers of narration in intertextuality
Metatextuality
Morishima Chūryō
Mythologies
Nihon ryōiki
Nō theatre
Nun Abutsu
Outer writings
Premodern Japanese literature
Re-interpretation
Religion
Roland Barthes
San’yūtei Enchō
Sarashina nikki
Sarayashiki
Sharebon
Shinkokinshū
Sūtras
Temporality
Text
Tsuruya Nanboku IV
Utatane
Waka
Yomihon
Zen
thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500
5TFP-JP-A
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
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