If you're looking for a book to read, The Tale of Genji is one worth reaching for, even if you've read it before, and even if ...

It is hard to think of a 253-page book as the CliffsNotes version of anything. But when one considers that the most recent English translation of the 11th century text, The Tale of Genji, runs to 1300 ...

Melissa McCormick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture at Harvard University, earned her B.A. from the University of Michigan (1990) and her Ph.D. from Princeton University (2000).

A 17th-century painting shows Murasaki Shikibu writing “The Tale of Genji.”Courtesy Ishiyamadera Ca. The “Game of Thrones” fan base is nothing compared to the one for “The Tale of Genji.” That ...

The word "novel" quite literally means "new." As in a "new story" or a "new way of writing." And while it's true that popular novels as we know them are fairly "new," the modern novel as an art form ...

Widely recognized as the world's first novel, as well as one of its best, the 11th-century tale of Genji the shining prince has been painstakingly and tenderly translated by Tyler, a retired professor ...

A show at the Metropolitan Museum is as sumptuous and seductive as the Japanese novel that begot it. By Roberta Smith Not every enduring literary masterpiece inspires a thousand years of often great ...

The Tale of Genji. A Japanese Classic Illuminated, the first major loan exhibition in North America devoted to this famous Japanese book, includes more than 120 works — paintings, calligraphy, silk ...

The renowned 11th-century Japanese literary masterpiece is receiving great attention these days (see PW Interview, Aug. 20). Here it is paid elegant tribute in The Tale of Genji: Paintings and Legends ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Founded in 1936 under the auspices of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (HJAS) has without ...

Fanfiction writers and fan artists have been maligned since the start of the internet, hunted by zealous copyright holders and ridiculed as derivative by academics. Well, no longer because fanfiction ...