Unbinding the Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic

Author/Contributor(s):	Ivanova, Gergana
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	04/06/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.