Unbinding The Pillow Book

Gergana Ivanova explores how The Pillow Book and its author have been read from the seventeenth century to the present. She shows how various ideologies have influenced the text and shaped interactions among its different versions, in the first book-length study in English of the reception history of Sei Shonagon.

Gergana Ivanova exploreaza modul in care Cartea de perne si autorul ei au fost citite din secolul al XVII-lea pana in prezent. Ea arata cum diverse ideologii au influentat textul si au modelat interactiunile dintre diferitele sale versiuni, in primul studiu de lungime de carte in limba engleza a istoriei receptiei lui Sei Shonagon.