The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature University of California

University of California

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The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature University of CaliforniaAuthor: Michael Emmerich Category: Nonfiction Language: English Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication date: October 1, 2013 Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji. Exploring iterations of the work from the 1830s to the 1950s, he demonstrates how translations and the global circulation of discourse they inspired turned The Tale of Genji into a widely read