The Rhetoric of Confession: <i>Shishosetsu</i> in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese FictionUniversity of California Press, 1. sept 2023 - 364 pages The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical nature of shishosetsu, and discusses its linguistic, literary and cultural contexts. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988. The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical |
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... Japan has produced many books on shishosetsu writers , but none primarily on the shishosetsu form itself . The one study to do so comes from Germany , not Japan : Irmela Hijiya - Kirschnereit's Selbst- entblossungsrituale ( Rituals of ...
... Japan has produced many books on shishosetsu writers , but none primarily on the shishosetsu form itself . The one study to do so comes from Germany , not Japan : Irmela Hijiya - Kirschnereit's Selbst- entblossungsrituale ( Rituals of ...
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... Japan , I was the beneficiary of numerous kindnesses and considerable intellectual stimulation . Saito Akira first introduced me to the major shishosetsu criticism when I was a student at the Tokyo Inter - University Center . Kikuta ...
... Japan , I was the beneficiary of numerous kindnesses and considerable intellectual stimulation . Saito Akira first introduced me to the major shishosetsu criticism when I was a student at the Tokyo Inter - University Center . Kikuta ...
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... Japan Foundation and the Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund , and later by the Duke Uni- versity Asian / Pacific Studies Institute and the National Endow- ment for the Humanities . Special thanks go to Mavis Mayer and Gail Woods for ...
... Japan Foundation and the Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund , and later by the Duke Uni- versity Asian / Pacific Studies Institute and the National Endow- ment for the Humanities . Special thanks go to Mavis Mayer and Gail Woods for ...
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... Japan ( 1912-26 ) . The shishosetsu , narrated in the first or third person in such a way as to represent with utter conviction the author's personal experience , is riddled with paradoxes . Suppos- edly a fictional narrative , it often ...
... Japan ( 1912-26 ) . The shishosetsu , narrated in the first or third person in such a way as to represent with utter conviction the author's personal experience , is riddled with paradoxes . Suppos- edly a fictional narrative , it often ...
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... Japan . The latter two writers have been se- lected over some of their more famous contemporaries in the belief that their careers as shishosetsu writers par excellence serve to dem- onstrate the form's characteristics more readily than ...
... Japan . The latter two writers have been se- lected over some of their more famous contemporaries in the belief that their careers as shishosetsu writers par excellence serve to dem- onstrate the form's characteristics more readily than ...
Contents
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Language and the Illusion of Presence | 28 |
Shishosetsu Criticism and the Myth of Sincerity | 43 |
THE RISE OF A FORM | 71 |
Harbingers I Tokoku Doppo Hogetsu | 73 |
Harbingers II Katai Homei | 103 |
The Bundan Readers Writers Critics | 128 |
THREE APPROACHES TO EXPERIENCE | 147 |
Chikamatsu Shuko The Hero as Fool | 149 |
Shiga Naoya The Hero as Sage | 187 |
Kasai Zenzo The Hero as Victim | 248 |
The Shishosetsu Today | 290 |
Bibliography | 299 |
Index | 315 |
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