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Unbinding The Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic
ISBN: 9780231547604
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Sei Shonagon approximately 967- Makura no soshi;

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.

Gergana Ivanova is assistant professor of Japanese Literature in the Asian Studies Program at the University of Cincinnati. Her articles have appeared in Japanese Language and Literature , Iconicity in Language , and Journal of Heian Literature Overseas. Gergana Ivanova is associate professor of Japanese literature and culture at the University of Cincinnati.