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
... discuss narrative fiction and particularly the autobiographical form known as the shishō- setsu — often mistranslated ( as I shall argue ) as " I - novel . " We had hardly settled into our seats and taken in the view from the lobby when ...
... discuss narrative fiction and particularly the autobiographical form known as the shishō- setsu — often mistranslated ( as I shall argue ) as " I - novel . " We had hardly settled into our seats and taken in the view from the lobby when ...
Page x
... discussion limited to a single work by each author , however , cannot fully explain how a writer actually goes about producing , or how a reader goes about consuming , shishosetsu , given its serial nature and its intertextual focus at ...
... discussion limited to a single work by each author , however , cannot fully explain how a writer actually goes about producing , or how a reader goes about consuming , shishosetsu , given its serial nature and its intertextual focus at ...
Page xvi
... discussion begins roughly with the publica- tion of Tayama Katai's Futon ( 1907 ) , commonly regarded as the prototypical shishosetsu , and ends with the form's clear emergence into the literary world's critical consciousness in the mid ...
... discussion begins roughly with the publica- tion of Tayama Katai's Futon ( 1907 ) , commonly regarded as the prototypical shishosetsu , and ends with the form's clear emergence into the literary world's critical consciousness in the mid ...
Page xviii
... discussion on the basis of clearly identifiable properties that western fiction can be said to " have , " we must avoid talking about a literature outside that tradi- tion in terms of what it " lacks " and thereby give it a negative ...
... discussion on the basis of clearly identifiable properties that western fiction can be said to " have , " we must avoid talking about a literature outside that tradi- tion in terms of what it " lacks " and thereby give it a negative ...
Page xxi
... discussion here is indebted to the work of Edward W. Said . See , for ex- ample , his Beginnings , esp . the section on narrative fiction ( 81-94 ) that introduces chap . 3 ( " The Novel as Beginning Intention " ) ; and his essay ...
... discussion here is indebted to the work of Edward W. Said . See , for ex- ample , his Beginnings , esp . the section on narrative fiction ( 81-94 ) that introduces chap . 3 ( " The Novel as Beginning Intention " ) ; and his essay ...
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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