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 xviii
... kind of interpretive aggression on the texts we read ? However indeterminate the precise combi- nation of factors that informs our " understanding " of another lit- erature , it is a matter of which we , as readers with notably ...
... kind of interpretive aggression on the texts we read ? However indeterminate the precise combi- nation of factors that informs our " understanding " of another lit- erature , it is a matter of which we , as readers with notably ...
Page xxiv
... kind of literalism that generated a tension between the contradic- tory urges of documentation and dramatization . In this war be- tween personal history and the imagination , history usually had the upper hand , although it never won a ...
... kind of literalism that generated a tension between the contradic- tory urges of documentation and dramatization . In this war be- tween personal history and the imagination , history usually had the upper hand , although it never won a ...
Page xxv
... kind of polysemic verbal play that per- meates the literature from pre - Heian waka to Edo - period ukiyo zō- shi , nor was he particularly steeped in the allusive imagery and subtle intertextual associations generated over the ...
... kind of polysemic verbal play that per- meates the literature from pre - Heian waka to Edo - period ukiyo zō- shi , nor was he particularly steeped in the allusive imagery and subtle intertextual associations generated over the ...
Page xxvi
... kind of literature would result from these expecta- tions was only natural . This is not to say that western fiction lacks parallels to the shishō- setsu . The " lyrical novel , " for example , provides fruitful ground for comparison ...
... kind of literature would result from these expecta- tions was only natural . This is not to say that western fiction lacks parallels to the shishō- setsu . The " lyrical novel , " for example , provides fruitful ground for comparison ...
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... kind of osmotic relationship that exists between author and narrator - hero — the one seemingly flowing into the other through a very permeable text . Uno knew that his audience would imme- diately recognize the by - then familiar ...
... kind of osmotic relationship that exists between author and narrator - hero — the one seemingly flowing into the other through a very permeable text . Uno knew that his audience would imme- diately recognize the by - then familiar ...
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