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 ix
... tradition , no monolithic ordering authority in narrative— and that makes all the difference . " Irokawa's words astonished me not only for their directness but also because they brought home to me a truism too easily ignored : that ...
... tradition , no monolithic ordering authority in narrative— and that makes all the difference . " Irokawa's words astonished me not only for their directness but also because they brought home to me a truism too easily ignored : that ...
Page x
... traditions as well as to the structure of the Japanese language itself . It also argues that the form's special prop ... tradition , the naturalist movement , and contemporary journalistic realities had on the writing of autobiographical ...
... traditions as well as to the structure of the Japanese language itself . It also argues that the form's special prop ... tradition , the naturalist movement , and contemporary journalistic realities had on the writing of autobiographical ...
Page xi
... tradition . Even as I refer to " traditional " narrative in the west , I am aware of the plurality of narrative forms in western prose fiction , particu- larly in the twentieth century . I use it as the basis for comparison nonetheless ...
... tradition . Even as I refer to " traditional " narrative in the west , I am aware of the plurality of narrative forms in western prose fiction , particu- larly in the twentieth century . I use it as the basis for comparison nonetheless ...
Page xvi
... tradition quite disparate from western individualism . Progressive critics have ridiculed it over the decades as a failed adaptation of the west- ern novel , while traditionalists have reveled in its difference . The difference lies not ...
... tradition quite disparate from western individualism . Progressive critics have ridiculed it over the decades as a failed adaptation of the west- ern novel , while traditionalists have reveled in its difference . The difference lies not ...
Page xvii
... tradition ( or more precisely , of traditional ways of thinking about literature ) rather than simply a distortion of literary naturalism imported from the west . To the extent that the shishosetsu is in fact traditional and by that ...
... tradition ( or more precisely , of traditional ways of thinking about literature ) rather than simply a distortion of literary naturalism imported from the west . To the extent that the shishosetsu is in fact traditional and by that ...
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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