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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988. 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 |
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... nature and its intertextual focus at the level of both oeuvre and canon . The purpose of this book is to clarify that nature and focus . None of the texts discussed at length in this study X Preface.
... nature and its intertextual focus at the level of both oeuvre and canon . The purpose of this book is to clarify that nature and focus . None of the texts discussed at length in this study X Preface.
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... 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 extended treatment of several writers ' tex ...
... 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 extended treatment of several writers ' tex ...
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... nature : its meaning derives from an extraliterary source , namely , the author's life . The Japanese as readers of shishosetsu have tended to regard the author's life , and not the written work , as the definitive " text " on which ...
... nature : its meaning derives from an extraliterary source , namely , the author's life . The Japanese as readers of shishosetsu have tended to regard the author's life , and not the written work , as the definitive " text " on which ...
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... nature and as more comfortable when keep- ing aloof from society or when submitting to , rather than confront- ing , the forces of nature . Mori Atsushi , a contemporary shishosetsu writer , characterizes this yielding to natural forces ...
... nature and as more comfortable when keep- ing aloof from society or when submitting to , rather than confront- ing , the forces of nature . Mori Atsushi , a contemporary shishosetsu writer , characterizes this yielding to natural forces ...
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... nature of writing is such that the Japanese writer's project of faithful recording was foredoomed ; yet the impulse to record was there nonetheless . " Realism " became a kind of literalism that generated a tension between the contradic ...
... nature of writing is such that the Japanese writer's project of faithful recording was foredoomed ; yet the impulse to record was there nonetheless . " Realism " became a kind of literalism that generated a tension between the contradic ...
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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