Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction
ISBN: 9781684173280
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Asia Center
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Japanese fiction -- 1868 -- History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric);

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 The Three-Cornered World; Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain; Mori Ōgai's Wild Geese; and Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's 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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