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Courtship in literature. --- Courtship --- History --- English literature --- Thematology --- Shakespeare, William

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Literary critiques of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century The Tale of Genji have often focused on the amorous adventures of its eponymous hero. In this paradigm-shifting analysis of the Genji and other mid-Heian literature, Doris G. Bargen emphasizes the thematic importance of Japan's complex polygynous kinship system as the domain within which courtship occurs. Heian courtship, conducted mainly to form secondary marriages, was driven by power struggles of succession among lineages that focused on achieving the highest position possible at court. Thus interpreting courtship in light of genealogies is essential for comprehending the politics of interpersonal behavior in many of these texts. Bargen focuses on the genealogical maze-the literal and figurative space through which several generations of men and women in the Genji moved. She demonstrates that courtship politics sought to control kinship by strengthening genealogical lines, while secret affairs and illicit offspring produced genealogical uncertainty that could be dealt with only by reconnecting dissociated lineages or ignoring or even terminating them. The work examines in detail the literary construction of a courtship practice known as kaimami, or "looking through a gap in the fence," in pre-Genji tales and diaries, and Sei Shōnagon's famous Pillow Book. In Murasaki Shikibu's Genji, courtship takes on multigenerational complexity and is often used as a political strategy to vindicate injustices, counteract sexual transgressions, or resist the pressure of imperial succession. Bargen argues persuasively that a woman observed by a man was not wholly deprived of agency: She could choose how much to reveal or conceal as she peeked through shutters, from behind partitions, fans, and kimono sleeves, or through narrow carriage windows. That mid-Heian authors showed courtship in its innumerable forms as being influenced by the spatial considerations of the Heian capital and its environs and by the architectural details of the residences within which aristocratic women were sequestered adds a fascinating topographical dimension to courtship.In Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan readers both familiar with and new to The Tale of Genji and its predecessors will be introduced to a wholly new interpretive lens through which to view these classic texts. In addition, the book includes charts that trace Genji characters' lineages, maps and diagrams that plot the movements of courtiers as they make their way through the capital and beyond, and color reproductions of paintings that capture the drama of courtship.

Kinship in literature. --- Courtship in literature. --- Japanese literature --- History and criticism. --- Murasaki Shikibu,

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Making a Match examines the various options posed at every stage of English wooing, together with the presentation of these protocols in the plays of Shakespeare. Across the canon, wooing may command either a casual reference or a central position in the action, but no play escapes a connection of some kind. Instead of taking a fixed position on an institution intended to stabilize the commonwealth, Shakespeare constantly shifts position, in a kaleidoscope of caricature, criticism, acceptance, subversion, or indifference. For general readers and specialists alike, this work supplies a rich understanding of the codes so familiar to the playwright and his audience--an understanding essential for an appreciation of the subtleties of his art. Delving into primary sources, social history, demography, and literary criticism, the author offers the widest possible range of both Renaissance and modern views on the most crucial experience of Elizabethan culture. Besides correcting or illuminating the interpretations of Shakespeareans, this book offers valuable material for any area of research on the English Renaissance that touches on courtship.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Courtship in literature. --- Courtship --- Courting --- Wooing --- Betrothal --- Love --- Love-letters --- Marriage --- History --- Shakespeare, William, --- Knowledge --- Manners and customs.

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Die mittelhochdeutschen Werke ›König Rother‹, ›St. Oswald‹, ›Orendel‹, ›Kudrun‹, ›Salman und Morolf‹ und ›Ortnit‹ erzählen alle vom gefahrvollen Werben um die Hand einer schönen Frau. Dabei verbindet sich das narrative Modell der gefährlichen Brautwerbung mit einer interreligiösen Thematik, denn immer gehört die umworbene Frau, ihr Vater oder ein Konkurrent einer anderen Religion als der heiratswillige Protagonist an.Da es sich bei diesen Protagonisten zumeist um Könige oder Königssöhne handelt, verbinden sich mit ihrer Brautwerbung folgerichtig immer Fragen nach Machtgewinn oder -verlust, die im interreligiösen Feld besondere Bedeutung entfalten. In der Durchdringung von narrativem Modell und diskursivem Gehalt werden dabei in jedem Text eigene Möglichkeiten entfaltet, vom christlich Eigenen, dem religiös Anderen und den Verhandlungen und Konfrontationen zwischen beiden zu erzählen.Dabei sind die Brautwerbungserzählungen ihrerseits auf vielfältige Art und Weise in die Verhandlungen kultureller Energien eingebunden, indem sie auf historiographisches, theologisches, politisches und philosophisches Schrifttum Bezug nehmen und die darin entwickelten Positionen und Ideen im literarischen Interdiskurs weiterentwickeln und für den eigenen Erzählzusammenhang fruchtbar machen.

German literature --- Religion and literature --- Courtship in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Christianity. --- Courtship. --- Islam. --- historical narratology.

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The period from her first London assembly to her wedding day was the narrow span of autonomy for a middle-class Englishwoman in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For many women, as Katherine Sobba Green shows, the new ideal of companionate marriage involved such thoroughgoing revisions in self-perception that a new literary form was needed to represent their altered roles.That the choice among suitors ideally depended on love and should not be decided on any other grounds was a principal theme among a group of heroine-centered novels published between 1740 and 1820. During these d

Fiction --- Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1700-1799 --- English fiction --- Courtship in literature. --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Women authors --- Literature and feminism