02670nam 2200577 450 991045271090332120200520144314.00-7391-3877-4(CKB)2550000001106909(EBL)1322677(SSID)ssj0000957022(PQKBManifestationID)11580807(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000957022(PQKBWorkID)10966007(PQKB)11746874(MiAaPQ)EBC1322677(Au-PeEL)EBL1322677(CaPaEBR)ebr10913457(CaONFJC)MIL507279(OCoLC)876507148(EXLCZ)99255000000110690920140905h20112011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTruth from a lie documentary, detection, and reflexivity in Abe Kōbō's realist project /Margaret S. KeyLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2011.©20111 online resource (207 p.)New Studies of Modern JapanDescription based upon print version of record.0-7391-3875-8 1-299-76028-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 AuthorThis 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.New studies of modern Japan.Realism in literatureElectronic books.Realism in literature.895.6/35Key Margaret S.1965-918675MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452710903321Truth from a lie2060248UNINA