| Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction Contributor(s): Sakaki, Atsuko (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674750942 ISBN-13: 9780674750944 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $41.09 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1999 Annotation: reader." By using this approach, the author situates each of these works not in its historical, cultural, or economic contexts but in the situation the text itself produces. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Japanese |
| Dewey: 895.634 |
| LCCN: 98-54779 |
| Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs |
| Physical Information: 1.03" H x 6.36" W x 9.29" (1.21 lbs) 286 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Japanese - Ethnic Orientation - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Offering the first systematic examination of five modern Japanese fictional narratives, all of them available in English translations, Atsuko Sakaki explores Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro and Kusamakura (The Three-Cornered World); Ibuse Masuji's Kuroi ame (Black Rain); Mori Ōgai's Gan (Wild Geese); and Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's Manji (Quicksand). Her close reading of each text reveals a hitherto unexplored area of communication between narrator and audience, as well as between "implied author" and "implied reader." By using this approach, the author situates each of these works not in its historical, cultural, or economic contexts but in the situation the text itself produces. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sakaki, Atsuko: - Atsuko Sakaki is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at Harvard University. |
