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The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishosetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction Paperback - 1992
by Edward Fowler
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There is an unmistakable mystique about the shishosetsu, begotten by the special status it enjoys as a "truthful" account of its author, which has traditionally discouraged anything more than a cursory analysis of it as a literary artifact.
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- Title The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishosetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction
- Author Edward Fowler
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 364
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, California
- Date 1992-03-23
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520078833 / 0520078837
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: East Asian
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 87013879
- Dewey Decimal Code 895.634
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University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 550 g.; XXX, 338 pages, includes bibliography and index, list of introductions, and introduction. Minor handling marks. "Early in the summer of 1985, I sat down at a Tokyo hotel With Irokawa Budai, an award-winning writer to discuss narrative fiction and particularly the autobiographical form known as the shisho-setsu -- often miss translated (as I shall argue) as "I.-novel." We had hardly settled into our seats and taking in the view from the lobby when he blurted out, almost apologetically, " Shosetsu and shisho-setsu -- they are both very strange. You see, there is no God in the Japanese tradition, no monolithic ordering authority in narrative -- and that makes all the difference." Irokawa's words astonished me not only for the directness but also because they brought home to me a truism too easily ignored: that different cultures can breed very different…
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University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 550 g.; XXX, 338 pages, includes bibliography and index, list of introductions, and introduction. Minor handling marks. "Early in the summer of 1985, I sat down at a Tokyo hotel With Irokawa Budai, an award-winning writer to discuss narrative fiction and particularly the autobiographical form known as the shisho-setsu -- often miss translated (as I shall argue) as "I.-novel." We had hardly settled into our seats and taking in the view from the lobby when he blurted out, almost apologetically, " Shosetsu and shisho-setsu -- they are both very strange. You see, there is no God in the Japanese tradition, no monolithic ordering authority in narrative -- and that makes all the difference." Irokawa's words astonished me not only for the directness but also because they brought home to me a truism too easily ignored: that different cultures can breed very different…
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