Table of contents for Crossing the bridge : comparative essays on medieval European and Heian Japanese women writers / edited by Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho.
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Introduction--Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho
Preface--Toshi Takamiya
Part I: Reading Women Writers
Speaking For: Surrogates and The Tale of Genji--Richard Okada
Re-Visioning the Widow Christine de Pizan--Barbara Stevenson
On Becoming Ukifune: Autobiographical Heroines in Heian and Kamakura Literature--Joshua S. Mostow
The Influence of St. Birgitta’s Revelations on The Book of Margery Kempe: St. Brigitta and Margery Kempe as Wives and Mothers--Nanda Hopenwasser and Signe Wegener
Part II: Comparative Studies
The Voice of the Court Woman Poet--S. Lea Millay
Romantic Entreaty in A Kagerô
Diary and The Letters of Abelard and Heloise--John R. Wallace
Words Alone Cannot Express: Epistles in Marie de France and Murasaki Shikibu--Cynthia Ho
‘True Lovers’: Love and Irony in Murasaki Shikibu and Christine de Pizan--Carol E. Harding
Reclaiming the Self Through Silence: The Riverside Counselor’s Stories and the Lais of Marie de France--Marco D. Roman
The Lady in the Garden: Subjects and Objects in an Ideal World--Mara Miller
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Literature, Medieval Women authors History and criticism, Japanese literature Heian period, 794-1185 History and criticism, Japanese literature Women authors History and criticism, Women and literature Europe History To 1500, Women and literature Japan History To 1500