Sei Shonagon
(c. 966-1017)

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FACULTY RESOURCES

Women's Literature

Sappho of Lesbos
Li Ch'ing Chao
Murasaki Shikibu
Sei Shonagon
Mirabai
Virginia Woolf

Chinese/Japanese Literature

Book of Songs
Confucius
Tao Ch'ien
Tang Poetry
The Manyoshu & The Kokinshu
The Tale of the Heike
Yoshida Kenko
Zeami Motokiyo
Higuchi Ichiyo
Wu Ch'eng-en
K'ung Shang-jen
Ts'ao Hsueh-Ch'in
Lu Xun
Ihara Saikaku
Matsuo Basho
Ueda Akinari
Tanizaki Junichiro
Kawabata Yasunari

Indian Literature

The Ramayana
The Mahabharata
The Bhagavad-Gita
The Kalidasa
Medieval Devotional Lyrics
Mahasweta Devi
Anita Desai
Rabindranath Tagore
Premchand

 

 

 

RECOMMENDED READING

  • McCullough, Helen C., Classical Japanese Prose, An Anthology (1990)
  • Morris, Ivan I., The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan (1979) DS824 .M6 1979
  • Sei Shonagon. The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. trans. Ivan Morris (1971) PL788.6.M3 E56 1971

 

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