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 x
... reader goes about consuming , shishosetsu , given its serial 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 ...
... reader goes about consuming , shishosetsu , given its serial 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 ...
Page xi
... reader identification that is literally unthinkable in English or in other western lan- guages . No wonder confusion between hero and narrator ( and by extension , author ) is so prevalent : they can be defined only in re- lationship to ...
... reader identification that is literally unthinkable in English or in other western lan- guages . No wonder confusion between hero and narrator ( and by extension , author ) is so prevalent : they can be defined only in re- lationship to ...
Page xv
... 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 comprehen- sion is the encounter of two ...
... 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 comprehen- sion is the encounter of two ...
Page xviii
... readers with notably different intellectual baggage than that of the original audience , should con- tinually be aware ... reader constructs a " sign " out of the signifying text and the signified extraliterary life , with no misgivings ...
... readers with notably different intellectual baggage than that of the original audience , should con- tinually be aware ... reader constructs a " sign " out of the signifying text and the signified extraliterary life , with no misgivings ...
Page xx
... reader might know a great deal about the life of Chikamatsu Shūkō or Shiga Naoya or Kasai Zenzō and still wonder what the author is getting at in his writings . The shishōsetsu is often formally unsatisfying , then , because it does not ...
... reader might know a great deal about the life of Chikamatsu Shūkō or Shiga Naoya or Kasai Zenzō and still wonder what the author is getting at in his writings . The shishōsetsu is often formally unsatisfying , then , because it does not ...
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