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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... Japanese language generally . We shall see that the first- person or third - person shishosetsu , almost by definition , works most effectively when it has but one center of consciousness , which is at once the narrator's and the hero's ...
... Japanese language generally . We shall see that the first- person or third - person shishosetsu , almost by definition , works most effectively when it has but one center of consciousness , which is at once the narrator's and the hero's ...
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... Japanese litera- ture . Chiyuki Kumakura continually pressed me to ever - more- rigorous readings of texts . Edward W. Said's seminar on narrative representation at the Sixth School of Criticism and Theory , held at Northwestern ...
... Japanese litera- ture . Chiyuki Kumakura continually pressed me to ever - more- rigorous readings of texts . Edward W. Said's seminar on narrative representation at the Sixth School of Criticism and Theory , held at Northwestern ...
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<i>Shishosetsu</i> in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction Edward Fowler. Asiatic libraries of the University of ... Japan Foundation and the Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund , and later by the Duke Uni- versity Asian / Pacific ...
<i>Shishosetsu</i> in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction Edward Fowler. Asiatic libraries of the University of ... Japan Foundation and the Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund , and later by the Duke Uni- versity Asian / Pacific ...
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... Japanese literary establishment , or bundan , would have us believe ) , however , as in its ultimate distrust of western - style realistic repre- sentation from which it has presumably borrowed so heavily . Its critically mixed ...
... Japanese literary establishment , or bundan , would have us believe ) , however , as in its ultimate distrust of western - style realistic repre- sentation from which it has presumably borrowed so heavily . Its critically mixed ...
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... Japanese letters . How we interpret the shishosetsu will depend a great deal on how we interpret Japanese literature and indeed all of Japanese cul- ture . Orthodoxy has it that it is a Japanized version of European naturalism . Our ...
... Japanese letters . How we interpret the shishosetsu will depend a great deal on how we interpret Japanese literature and indeed all of Japanese cul- ture . Orthodoxy has it that it is a Japanized version of European naturalism . Our ...
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