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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Page xix
... critics often do , to " document " the extraliterary lives and see the latter as the " true " object of criticism is at best a risky enterprise . Shuko , for example , by writing in a series of stories about the same event in " real ...
... critics often do , to " document " the extraliterary lives and see the latter as the " true " object of criticism is at best a risky enterprise . Shuko , for example , by writing in a series of stories about the same event in " real ...
Page xx
... critics are generally uncomfortable call- ing the shishosetsu fiction at all . Fiction , as in other western modes of discourse , from history and biography to the expository essay , houses a narrative dynamo that generates a linear ...
... critics are generally uncomfortable call- ing the shishosetsu fiction at all . Fiction , as in other western modes of discourse , from history and biography to the expository essay , houses a narrative dynamo that generates a linear ...
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... critics soon took to applying the taxonomy of En- glish , French , German , and Russian criticism in particular to in- digenous literary forms ; when they realized that the fit was less than perfect , they insisted for the most part ...
... critics soon took to applying the taxonomy of En- glish , French , German , and Russian criticism in particular to in- digenous literary forms ; when they realized that the fit was less than perfect , they insisted for the most part ...
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... critics ' argument for the shishosetsu as irrefutable evidence about the author's personal life breaks down . As we shall see , the nature of writing is such that the Japanese writer's project of faithful recording was foredoomed ; yet ...
... critics ' argument for the shishosetsu as irrefutable evidence about the author's personal life breaks down . As we shall see , the nature of writing is such that the Japanese writer's project of faithful recording was foredoomed ; yet ...
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... critics , and interested readers who had an emotional or intellectual stake in the equation between art and private life . Neither author nor reader took seriously the realistic convention of an anonymous , omniscient narrator who ...
... critics , and interested readers who had an emotional or intellectual stake in the equation between art and private life . Neither author nor reader took seriously the realistic convention of an anonymous , omniscient narrator who ...
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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