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THE TALE OF GENJI (ca. 1021)
by Murasaki Shikibu

Bibliography

The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of 'The Tale of Genji'
By Haruo Shirane
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988

Approaches to Teaching Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji
Edited by Edward Kamens
New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1994

The Splendour of Longing in the Tale of Genji
By Norma Field
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987

"The Tale of Genji"
By Edward G. Seidensticker and Haruo Shirane
In Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective, edited by Barbara Stoler Miller
Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1994

Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji (A Student Guide)
By Richard Bowring
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 2004

"The Tale of Genji as a Japanese and World Classic"
By Haruo Shirane
In Approaches to the Asian Classics, edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom
New York: Columbia University Press, 1990

The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
By Ivan Morris
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964