Approaches to Teaching Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji" Book

	Preface to the Series
	Preface to the Volume
	Texts	3
	Scholarly Studies and Reader's Guides	11
	Recommended Reading	14
	Getting at the Language of The Tale of Genji through the Mirror of Translation	31
	A Short Term with The Tale of Genji	41
	The Tale of Genji in a Religio-aesthetic Perspective	45
	Buildings and Gardens in The Tale of Genji	52
	Team-Teaching the Literary and Visual Tale of Genji	60
	From the Original, from the Start	70
	The Narrative Triad in The Tale of Genji: Narrator, Reader, and Text	77
	En-gendering Subjectivity in The Tale of Genji	88
	They Also Serve: Ladies-in-Waiting in The Tale of Genji	95
	Mediation and Mediators: Letters, Screens, and Other Go-Betweens in The Tale of Genji	108
	The Problem of Incest in The Tale of Genji	115
	"The End of a Year - the End of a Life As Well": Murasaki Shikibu's Farewell to the Shining One	124
	Genshin's "Shadow"	132
	Teaching The Tale of Genji with Saikaku's Life of an Amorous Man	142
	"The Bridge of Dreams" and Masks: Two Modern Responses to The Tale of Genji	148
	The Akashi Lady: When Second Is Best	155
	Madness in Literature: Reading the "Heartvine" Chapter and Its Descendants	162
	Contributors and Survey Respondents	169
	Works Cited	171
	Index	183