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. |
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... Shiga Naoya's An'ya koro . There is a good chance , moreover , that many of them will never be translated . ( The question of why they will not of course sheds considerable light on our own cultural expectations of fiction and on the ...
... Shiga Naoya's An'ya koro . There is a good chance , moreover , that many of them will never be translated . ( The question of why they will not of course sheds considerable light on our own cultural expectations of fiction and on the ...
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... Shiga Naoya zenshū [ Shiga Naoya : collected works ] . Ed . Mushanokōji Saneatsu et al . 15 vols . Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten , 1973-74 . Introduction Presentation and Representation in the Shishosetsu Every work is xiv List of Abbreviations.
... Shiga Naoya zenshū [ Shiga Naoya : collected works ] . Ed . Mushanokōji Saneatsu et al . 15 vols . Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten , 1973-74 . Introduction Presentation and Representation in the Shishosetsu Every work is xiv List of Abbreviations.
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... Shiga is a celebrated writer , while Shuko and Kasai3 are relative unknowns here and in Japan . The latter two ... Shiga Naoya and Kasai Zenzō are referred to as Shiga and Kasai , and Natsume Sōseki and Shimazaki Tōson as Sōseki and ...
... Shiga is a celebrated writer , while Shuko and Kasai3 are relative unknowns here and in Japan . The latter two ... Shiga Naoya and Kasai Zenzō are referred to as Shiga and Kasai , and Natsume Sōseki and Shimazaki Tōson as Sōseki and ...
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... Shiga Naoya , and Kasai Zenzo are based on the authors ' lives ; yet to use the texts , as Japanese critics often do , to " document " the extraliterary lives and see the latter as the " true " object of criticism is at best a risky ...
... Shiga Naoya , and Kasai Zenzo are based on the authors ' lives ; yet to use the texts , as Japanese critics often do , to " document " the extraliterary lives and see the latter as the " true " object of criticism is at best a risky ...
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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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Akutagawa An'ya kōro argues artistic audience autobiographical bungaku career chapter character Chikamatsu Shūkō confession consciousness critics culture cycle Doppo emotional essay example fact father feelings first-person narration Futon Giwaku hero's Hōgetsu Hōmei Ibid Itō Japan Japanese literature junbungaku kare Kasai hero Kasai Zenzō kenkyū Kensaku Kindai Kobayashi Kobayashi Hideo Kume Masao Kunikida Doppo language later literary lived experience magazine Masamune Hakuchō Meiji modern Japanese mono Nakamura Mitsuo narrator-hero narrator's Natsume Sōseki naturalist nature never Nihon novel Osei Osuma Ōtsu reader reality relationship sense setsu Shiga Naoya Shimazaki Tōson shinkyō shinkyō shōsetsu Shirakaba shishō shishōsetsu writer shō shōsetsu ron shū Shūjaku sincerity social society Sōseki's story story's Taishō Taishō period Tanizaki Tayama Katai third-person thought tion Tōkoku Tokyo Tōson tradition truth Wakai Wakareta tsuma watakushi shōsetsu western western fiction writing written reportive style Yukioka zenshū