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 ix
... cultures can breed very different kinds of narrative and that our purpose as readers outside the target culture ought to be to understand such narratives in terms of their inherent dynam- ics rather than of what they presumably " lack ...
... cultures can breed very different kinds of narrative and that our purpose as readers outside the target culture ought to be to understand such narratives in terms of their inherent dynam- ics rather than of what they presumably " lack ...
Page xi
... cultural expectations of fiction and on the nature of the two languages . ) I have chosen them anyway ( knowing that I would face the same difficulty regardless of the shishosetsu writers I discussed ) in the conviction that only an ...
... cultural expectations of fiction and on the nature of the two languages . ) I have chosen them anyway ( knowing that I would face the same difficulty regardless of the shishosetsu writers I discussed ) in the conviction that only an ...
Page xv
... culture , from his time , in short from another discourse ; all comprehen- sion is the encounter of two discourses : a dialogue . It is futile and silly to try to leave off being oneself in order to become someone else ; were one to ...
... culture , from his time , in short from another discourse ; all comprehen- sion is the encounter of two discourses : a dialogue . It is futile and silly to try to leave off being oneself in order to become someone else ; were one to ...
Page xvii
... culture's assumptions and expectations about writing ? Or is it made possible by an unconscious molding of expectations during the course of our study ? Or , finally , is it made possible merely 3. This book follows the Japanese ...
... culture's assumptions and expectations about writing ? Or is it made possible by an unconscious molding of expectations during the course of our study ? Or , finally , is it made possible merely 3. This book follows the Japanese ...
Page xix
... cultural than a literary phe- nomenon , the product of a particular critical attitude rather than a viable formal classification . Yet even this latter approach is not en- tirely satisfactory : even though it denies any special generic ...
... cultural than a literary phe- nomenon , the product of a particular critical attitude rather than a viable formal classification . Yet even this latter approach is not en- tirely satisfactory : even though it denies any special generic ...
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