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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... consciousness , which is at once the narrator's and the hero's own . Without denying a basic commonality between shosetsu and novel , then , this book focuses on the distinctions and suggests why they are not always apparent in ...
... consciousness , which is at once the narrator's and the hero's own . Without denying a basic commonality between shosetsu and novel , then , this book focuses on the distinctions and suggests why they are not always apparent in ...
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... consciousness in the mid - 1920s . To comment on every writer affected by the rise of the shishosetsu would have the effect of saying very little about the form , since it was embraced by virtually every literary school . A precise mea ...
... consciousness in the mid - 1920s . To comment on every writer affected by the rise of the shishosetsu would have the effect of saying very little about the form , since it was embraced by virtually every literary school . A precise mea ...
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... consciousness in the 1920s , the shishosetsu was commonly looked upon as something of a mongrel or bastard , born to an evolutionary - conscious literary world in which the apparent goal was the development of genres equivalent to those ...
... consciousness in the 1920s , the shishosetsu was commonly looked upon as something of a mongrel or bastard , born to an evolutionary - conscious literary world in which the apparent goal was the development of genres equivalent to those ...
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... conscious reve- lation of those mechanics . To be sure , the shishosetsu author did not 11. I use this term in the sense employed by Noël Burch in To the Distant Observer ( see esp . 68-70 , where he applies the concept to the Kabuki ...
... conscious reve- lation of those mechanics . To be sure , the shishosetsu author did not 11. I use this term in the sense employed by Noël Burch in To the Distant Observer ( see esp . 68-70 , where he applies the concept to the Kabuki ...
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... conscious of a third aspect of presentation , which might best be described as the actor - audience relationship . Classi- cal poetry and drama , for example , especially in the centuries im- mediately preceding the modern period , are ...
... conscious of a third aspect of presentation , which might best be described as the actor - audience relationship . Classi- cal poetry and drama , for example , especially in the centuries im- mediately preceding the modern period , are ...
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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