{"product_id":"eccentric-spaces-hidden-histories-9780804751582","title":"Eccentric Spaces Hidden Histories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines the interrelationship between narrative, ritual, and royal authority, including discussions of Daoism, yin-yang, and Buddhist doctrine, as depicted in a variety of texts from \u003ci\u003eThe Chronicles of Japan\u003c\/i\u003e (7th century) to \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of the Heike\u003c\/i\u003e (14th century).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dense, detailed, and deeply conversant with literary theory, Bialock provides excellent overviews of the reception of Chinese religious culture in early Japan (chapters 1-3, 6) as well as the role of Buddhist traditions in shaping medieval Japanese culture (chapters 7-8).\" -- Jeffrey L. Richey * \u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This important study challenges long-held assumption about pre-modern Japanese culture. It is a work of great scholarship that makes high demands of readers, but well repays the effort\" -- Michael Watson * \u003ci\u003eMonumenta Nipponica\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Bialock focuses on overlooked details and aspects of the many subjects he treats, and he opens up new perspectives on the \u003ci\u003eHeike\u003c\/i\u003e and on the long sweep of texts and history he covers.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The sophisticated application of contemporary critical theory to the study of premodern Japanese literary and historical texts is something of a rarity in English-language scholarship However, David Bialock's \u003ci\u003eEccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories\u003c\/i\u003e is one such work: a book of extraordinary breadth and depth Bialock's book is an inspirational study that is likely to exert profound effects upon the fields of premodern Japanese literary and cultural studies for years to come.\" -- R. Keller Kimbrough, University of Colorado * Boulder *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEccentric Places, Hidden Histories\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of comprehensive erudition, well worth the wait that medievalists have endured since the appearance of Bialock's doctoral dissertation that presaged it . . . Following the multiple threads that he untangles and winds in new patterns will change the way readers configure the whole cloth of premodern Japan.\" -- \u003ci\u003eHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents  Acknowledgments\t2  Abbreviations\t9  A Note to the Reader\t10  Introduction\t12  \tPart I  1. Hidden Texts: The Construction of Yin-Yang and Daoist Studies  2. The Yin and the Yang of Power  3. Recovering the Daoist Text  \tPart II  4. Royalizing the Realm and the Ritualization of Violence  5. Peripheries of Power: Toward an Ambulatory History  \tPart III  6. China in the Medieval Imaginary  7. Reimagining Late Heian and Early Medieval Space  8. The Apocryphal History of Kiyomori  Epilogue\t556  Glossary of Chinese Characters\t559  Notes  Bibliography\t568  Index","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405561667927,"sku":"9780804751582","price":62.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804751582.jpg?v=1730492839","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eccentric-spaces-hidden-histories-9780804751582","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}