Recontextualizing Text - Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-674-75094-4
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 180, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: Harvard East Asian Monographs

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 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sakaki, Atsuko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

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