Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction (Harvard East Asian Monographs) - Hardcover

Sakaki, Atsuko

 
9780674750944: Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674750942 ISBN 13: 9780674750944
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Atsuko Sakaki is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at Harvard University.

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Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674750942
ISBN 13 
9780674750944
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
286