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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... 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 translation . Given the obvious ...
... 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 translation . Given the obvious ...
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... once sympathetic and scrupulously critical . In short , we can take little for granted in our study . Even the ostensibly simple matter of classification is fraught with difficulties . The literary terms and categories with which we are ...
... once sympathetic and scrupulously critical . In short , we can take little for granted in our study . Even the ostensibly simple matter of classification is fraught with difficulties . The literary terms and categories with which we are ...
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... once ) . The shishosetsu , moreover , need not have a first- person narrator at all . A story narrated in the third person may still be considered a shishosetsu if the hero is clearly modeled after the author.2 1. Tanpen , chuhen , and ...
... once ) . The shishosetsu , moreover , need not have a first- person narrator at all . A story narrated in the third person may still be considered a shishosetsu if the hero is clearly modeled after the author.2 1. Tanpen , chuhen , and ...
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... once used alternately with watakushi shôsetsu : " watakushi wa " shôsetsu . ( Wa is the topic - indicating particle . ) See the entry on watakushi shôsetsu in NKBD 4 : 539 . As an alternative , Kasai Zenzô elected to call his ...
... once used alternately with watakushi shôsetsu : " watakushi wa " shôsetsu . ( Wa is the topic - indicating particle . ) See the entry on watakushi shôsetsu in NKBD 4 : 539 . As an alternative , Kasai Zenzô elected to call his ...
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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 kôro argues artistic audience autobiographical bungaku career chapter character Chikamatsu Shûkô confession consciousness critics culture cycle Doppo emotional essay example fact father feelings first-person narration Futon Giwaku hero's Hôgetsu Hômei Ibid Itô Japan Japanese literature junbungaku kare Kasai hero Kasai Zenzô kenkyû Kensaku Kindai Kobayashi Kobayashi Hideo Kume Masao Kunikida Doppo language later literary lived experience magazine Masamune Hakuchô Meiji modern Japanese mono Nakamura Mitsuo narrator-hero narrator's Natsume Sôseki naturalist nature never Nihon novel Osei Osuma Ôtsu reader reality relationship sense setsu Shiga Naoya Shimazaki Tôson shinkyô shinkyô shôsetsu Shirakaba shishô shishôsetsu writer shô shôsetsu ron shû Shûjaku sincerity social society Sôseki's story story's Taishô Taishô period Tanizaki Tayama Katai third-person thought tion Tôkoku Tokyo Tôson tradition truth Wakai Wakareta tsuma watakushi shôsetsu western western fiction writing written reportive style Yukioka zenshû