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 xi
... person narra- tor of a nineteenth - century realistic novel reigning confidently over his fictional realm , or the first - person narrator of a twentieth- century novel presiding self - consciously over his metafictional realm , narrative ...
... person narra- tor of a nineteenth - century realistic novel reigning confidently over his fictional realm , or the first - person narrator of a twentieth- century novel presiding self - consciously over his metafictional realm , narrative ...
Page xvi
... narrated in the first or third person in such a way as to represent with utter conviction the author's personal experience , is riddled with paradoxes . Suppos- edly a fictional narrative , it often reads more like a private journal ...
... narrated in the first or third person in such a way as to represent with utter conviction the author's personal experience , is riddled with paradoxes . Suppos- edly a fictional narrative , it often reads more like a private journal ...
Page xxvii
... narrative within the framework of fiction " and reduces the world to a point of view equivalent to that of a diarist , confessor , or first - person narrator . 12 We should not , however , let these very real similarities blind us to ...
... narrative within the framework of fiction " and reduces the world to a point of view equivalent to that of a diarist , confessor , or first - person narrator . 12 We should not , however , let these very real similarities blind us to ...
Page 6
... first - person pronoun in western languages like English makes that presence ... narrator cannot even utter the word watakushi or boku or ore until he has ... narrative relationship is , however , fraught with contradictions and forces ...
... first - person pronoun in western languages like English makes that presence ... narrator cannot even utter the word watakushi or boku or ore until he has ... narrative relationship is , however , fraught with contradictions and forces ...
Page 7
... first - person narrative to point to himself . Now , even though there is nothing wrong with having the narrator double as the hero and the hero pose as a writer , it is regrettable that readers have come to equate him automatically ...
... first - person narrative to point to himself . Now , even though there is nothing wrong with having the narrator double as the hero and the hero pose as a writer , it is regrettable that readers have come to equate him automatically ...
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