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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Page x
... 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 ...
Page xvi
... 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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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