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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809056203321

Autore

Key Margaret S. <1965->

Titolo

Truth from a lie : documentary, detection, and reflexivity in Abe Kōbō's realist project / / Margaret S. Key

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-7391-3877-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

New Studies of Modern Japan

Disciplina

895.6/35

Soggetti

Realism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note to the Reader; Introduction; Chapter 1: Investigating the ""Concrete Things"" of Reality; Chapter 2: Blurring the Boundary between the Fictional and the Real: Ishi no me and ""Jiken no haikei""; Chapter 3: True Lies and Dramatized Facts: Mokugekisha and Mihitsu no koi; Chapter 4: Memoir, Murder, and the Metafictional Aesthetic inTanin no kao; Chapter 5: Rethinking Abe: Objectivity as Epistemology, Ethics, and Art; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This reassessment of some of the major fictional, dramatic, documentary, and critical texts in which Abe worked out his theory of realism in the 1950s and 1960s explores the ways in which the documentarian and the detective became important metaphors in Abe's realist project. It opens up new possibilities for exploring ideas that Abe investigates in virtually all of his significant works: how we 'see,' how we 'know,' and how we ethically engage with alterity.