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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... thoughts and actions . He compiled this record less out of a sense of his own self - importance than out of skepticism that experience other than his own could be recorded with complete confidence . ( This skepticism was reinforced by a ...
... thoughts and actions . He compiled this record less out of a sense of his own self - importance than out of skepticism that experience other than his own could be recorded with complete confidence . ( This skepticism was reinforced by a ...
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... thought , but the thought itself " ( ibid . , 2-3 ) . Thus , the story " may be used as an autobiography ... as a long short story ; as a historical document ; as Bildungsroman " ( ibid . , 3 ) . It is interesting that it is an Egyptian ...
... thought , but the thought itself " ( ibid . , 2-3 ) . Thus , the story " may be used as an autobiography ... as a long short story ; as a historical document ; as Bildungsroman " ( ibid . , 3 ) . It is interesting that it is an Egyptian ...
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... thought to differ significantly from the shosetsu , yet has no clearly identifiable linguistic marks ? And finally , how is one to de- scribe in English a form the very name of which comprises two seemingly neutral but in fact highly ...
... thought to differ significantly from the shosetsu , yet has no clearly identifiable linguistic marks ? And finally , how is one to de- scribe in English a form the very name of which comprises two seemingly neutral but in fact highly ...
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... thoughts . The original meaning of watakushi , to be sure , is " private " or " personal " as opposed to " public " or " communal " ( whence such words , still in use , as watakushigoto [ " private matter " ] and watakushigokoro ...
... thoughts . The original meaning of watakushi , to be sure , is " private " or " personal " as opposed to " public " or " communal " ( whence such words , still in use , as watakushigoto [ " private matter " ] and watakushigokoro ...
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... thoughts and acts . We can think of a true pro- noun as a sign of separate and autonomous presence , marking an indelible boundary between self and other . The existence of only one first - person pronoun in western languages like ...
... thoughts and acts . We can think of a true pro- noun as a sign of separate and autonomous presence , marking an indelible boundary between self and other . The existence of only one first - person pronoun in western languages like ...
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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