A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan by Paul Gordon Schalow

A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan

Paul Gordon Schalow

219 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

informative reflective medium-paced

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Western scholars have tended to read Heian literature through the prism of female experience, stressing the imbalance of power in courtship and looking for evidence that women hoped to move beyond the constraints of marriage politics. Paul Schalow...

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