Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction

(Book #180 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)

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Offering the first systematic examination of five modern Japanese fictional narratives, all of them available in English translations, Atsuko Sakaki explores Natsume Soseki's Kokoro and Kusamakura ( The Three-Cornered World ); Ibuse Masuji's Kuroi ame ( Black Rain ); Mori ogai's Gan ( Wild Geese ); and Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's Manji ( Quicksand ). Her close reading of each text reveals a hitherto unexplored area of communication between narrator and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674750942

ISBN13:9780674750944

Release Date:May 1999

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:286 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction

(Book #180 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)

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