Figures of Resistance Language, Poetry and Narrating in the Tale of Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts

"Figures of Resistanceis not simply the best English-language study of Heian prose texts now available, but also one of the two or three most important studies of Japanese literature ever written. It will become not so much the 'standard' . . . as the critical point of departure in the field of Japanese narrative studies for years to come." -Edward Fowler, University of California, IrvineOkada, H. Richard is the author of 'Figures of Resistance Language, Poetry and Narrating in the Tale of Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts' with ISBN 9780822311928 and ISBN 0822311925.