The Volume of Kiritsubo and Chokonka : The Tales of the Genji as a Text in the Becoming

Abstract

I have attempted to consider the relation between Chokonka and the Kiritsubo volume not as the one between the prototext and the text but as the one of vital transformation between the texts, thus revealing the dynamic aspects of the text of The Tales of the Genji. In other words, I did not merely point out the effects of fragmented quotations from Chokonka, but treated the rhetorical structure of Chokonka as a whole, discussing in addition how its difference from the Kiritsubo Volume, as well as excess and lack, gave birth to the text and determined the direction of its development,