Itineraries of power : texts and traversals in Heian and medieval Japan / Terry Kawashima.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2016.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.

©2016

xiii, 240 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

""Examines a selection of prose narratives and poetry of the mid-Heian to medieval eras (900-1400) which conspicuously features tropes of movement. Argues that the concurrent appearance in a story of a character's physical motion and the techniques identified with literary strategies of motion is a textual signpost urging readers to focus on how the work conceptualizes relations of power and claims to authority"-- Provided by publisher.

English

February 06, 2017

Includes bibliographical references and index.