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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... narrative - charged sense , they are just as uncomfort- able calling it autobiography , for autobiography houses the same narrative dynamo that is so alien to the traditional Japanese aes- thetic . The urge to use western literary ...
... narrative - charged sense , they are just as uncomfort- able calling it autobiography , for autobiography houses the same narrative dynamo that is so alien to the traditional Japanese aes- thetic . The urge to use western literary ...
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... narrative system , which had a very different orientation from that of the classical western narrative . The latter , as we have seen , was founded on the belief that process could be fully repre- sented and that each action or event ...
... narrative system , which had a very different orientation from that of the classical western narrative . The latter , as we have seen , was founded on the belief that process could be fully repre- sented and that each action or event ...
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... narrative within the framework of fiction " and reduces the world to a point of view equivalent to that of a diarist , confessor , or first - person narrator . 12 We should not , however , let these very real similarities blind us to ...
... narrative within the framework of fiction " and reduces the world to a point of view equivalent to that of a diarist , confessor , or first - person narrator . 12 We should not , however , let these very real similarities blind us to ...
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... narrative project and the nature of shishosetsu in general . The key to under- standing these writers is not simply their lives or their times but also the system of narrative presentation that informs the shishō- setsu as a whole ...
... narrative project and the nature of shishosetsu in general . The key to under- standing these writers is not simply their lives or their times but also the system of narrative presentation that informs the shishō- setsu as a whole ...
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... narrative proc- ess . See also Gérard Genette , Figures of Literary Discourse , esp . chap . 7 ( " Frontiers of Narrative " ) , for an explication of narrative distinctions relevant to this study , as well as Narrative Discourse , by ...
... narrative proc- ess . See also Gérard Genette , Figures of Literary Discourse , esp . chap . 7 ( " Frontiers of Narrative " ) , for an explication of narrative distinctions relevant to this study , as well as Narrative Discourse , by ...
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