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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... shishosetsu writer , characterizes this yielding to natural forces with the Bud- dhist phrase sho - rô - byd - shi — the four unavoidable trials of birth , ag- ing , sickness , and death that all humans must experience during their life ...
... shishosetsu writer , characterizes this yielding to natural forces with the Bud- dhist phrase sho - rô - byd - shi — the four unavoidable trials of birth , ag- ing , sickness , and death that all humans must experience during their life ...
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... shishôsetsu is most emphatically a part , clearly shows itself to be of an altogether different order . Yet if Japanese critics are uncomfortable calling the shishosetsu fiction in its narrative - charged sense , they are just as ...
... shishôsetsu is most emphatically a part , clearly shows itself to be of an altogether different order . Yet if Japanese critics are uncomfortable calling the shishosetsu fiction in its narrative - charged sense , they are just as ...
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<i>Shishosetsu</i> in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction Edward Fowler. presumed models , particularly ... shishôsetsu in particular as an example of literary influences gone awry . Even while pursuing many of the thematic concerns ...
<i>Shishosetsu</i> in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction Edward Fowler. presumed models , particularly ... shishôsetsu in particular as an example of literary influences gone awry . Even while pursuing many of the thematic concerns ...
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... shishôsetsu , too , thrived on an intimate actor - audience rap- port made possible by the audience's homogeneity and limited size . Readers of the shishosetsu in its heyday ( the second and third decades of this century ) numbered only ...
... shishôsetsu , too , thrived on an intimate actor - audience rap- port made possible by the audience's homogeneity and limited size . Readers of the shishosetsu in its heyday ( the second and third decades of this century ) numbered only ...
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... shishosetsu use the techniques of essay , diary , confession , and other nonfictional forms to present the fiction of a faithfully chronicled experience . Granted that our own expectations about modern Japanese lit- erature cannot be ...
... shishosetsu use the techniques of essay , diary , confession , and other nonfictional forms to present the fiction of a faithfully chronicled experience . Granted that our own expectations about modern Japanese lit- erature cannot be ...
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 kôro argues artistic audience autobiographical bungaku career chapter character Chikamatsu Shûkô confession consciousness critics culture cycle Doppo emotional essay example fact father feelings first-person narration Futon Giwaku hero's Hôgetsu Hômei Ibid Itô Japan Japanese literature junbungaku kare Kasai hero Kasai Zenzô kenkyû Kensaku Kindai Kobayashi Kobayashi Hideo Kume Masao Kunikida Doppo language later literary lived experience magazine Masamune Hakuchô Meiji modern Japanese mono Nakamura Mitsuo narrator-hero narrator's Natsume Sôseki naturalist nature never Nihon novel Osei Osuma Ôtsu reader reality relationship sense setsu Shiga Naoya Shimazaki Tôson shinkyô shinkyô shôsetsu Shirakaba shishô shishôsetsu writer shô shôsetsu ron shû Shûjaku sincerity social society Sôseki's story story's Taishô Taishô period Tanizaki Tayama Katai third-person thought tion Tôkoku Tokyo Tôson tradition truth Wakai Wakareta tsuma watakushi shôsetsu western western fiction writing written reportive style Yukioka zenshû