Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals: 36 Great Women before 1400. Episode 23, Lady Murasaki Writes the First Novel.
Material type:![Film](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/VM.png)
- two-dimensional moving image
- computer
- online resource
Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Joyce E. Salisbury
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2019.
At the height of the Heian period, Japan was breaking away from Chinese influence and developing its own courtly culture, with women emerging as a powerful force in art and literature. Here you will meet Murasaki Shikibu, the woman who wrote the world’s first novel: The Tale of Genji.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English