The Rhetoric of Confession: <i>Shishosetsu</i> in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese FictionThe 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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Irokawa's words astonished me not only for their directness but also because
they brought home to me a truism too easily ignored: that different cultures can
breed very different kinds of narrative and that our purpose as readers outside
the ...
Irokawa's words astonished me not only for their directness but also because
they brought home to me a truism too easily ignored: that different cultures can
breed very different kinds of narrative and that our purpose as readers outside
the ...
Page xv
Every work is rewritten by its reader, who imposes upon it a new grid of
interpretation for which he is not generally responsible but which comes to him
from his culture, from his time, in short from another discourse; all comprehension
is the ...
Every work is rewritten by its reader, who imposes upon it a new grid of
interpretation for which he is not generally responsible but which comes to him
from his culture, from his time, in short from another discourse; all comprehension
is the ...
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Contents
| 3 | |
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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| Title | The Rhetoric of Confession: <i>Shishosetsu</i> in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction |
| Author | Edward Fowler |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0520912764, 9780520912762 |
| Length | 364 pages |
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