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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495889703321

Autore

Fowler Edward

Titolo

The rhetoric of confession : Shishōsetsu in early twentieth-century Japanese fiction / / Edward Fowler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1988]

©1988

ISBN

0-520-91276-4

0-585-13047-7

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxix, 333 p. )

Disciplina

895.63409

Soggetti

Autobiographical fiction, Japanese - History and criticism

Japanese fiction - Taishō period, 1912-1926 - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 299-313.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: presentation and representation in the Shishōsetsu -- 1. Fictions and fabrications -- 2. Language and the illusion of presence -- 3. Shishōsetsu criticism and the myth of sincerity -- 4. Harbingers (I): Tōkoku, Doppo, Hōgetsu -- 5. Harbingers (II): Katai, Hōmei -- 6. The Bundan: readers, writers, critics -- 7. Chikamatsu Shūkō: the hero as fool -- 8. Shiga Naoya: the hero as sage -- 9. Kasai Zenzō: the hero as victim -- Epilogue: The shishōsetsu today -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.