Crossing the bridge : comparative essays on medieval European and Heian Japanese women writers /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Stevenson, Barbara, 1957-, Ho, Cynthia O. (Cynthia Olson), 1947-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave, 2000.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	New Middle Ages.
Subjects:	Literature, Medieval > Women authors > History and criticism. Japanese literature > Heian period, 794-1185 > History and criticism. Japanese literature > Women authors > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Speaking for : surrogates and the Tale of the Genji / H. Richard Okada
Re-visioning the widow Christine de Pizan / Barbara Stevenson
On becoming ukifune : autobiographical heroines in Heian and Kamakura literature / Joshua S. Mostow
Vox matris : the influence of St. Birgitta's Revelations on The book of Margery Kempe : St. Birgitta and Margery Kempe as wives and mothers / Nanda Hopenwasser and Signe Wegener
The voice of the court woman poet / S. Lea Millay
Romantic entreaty in The Kagerō diary and The letters of Abelard and Heloise / John R. Wallace
Words alone cannot express : epistles in Marie de France and Murasaki Shikubu / Cynthia Ho
"True lovers" : love and irony in Murasaki Shikibu and Christine de Pizan / Carol E. Harding
Reclaiming the self through silence : The Riverside Counselor's stories and the Lais of Marie de France / Marco D. Roman
The lady in the garden : subjects and objects in an ideal world / Mara Miller.