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

Atsuko Sakaki

ISBN 10: 0674750942 / ISBN 13: 9780674750944

Verlag: Harvard Univ Pr, 1999

Beschreibung

272 pages. 9.25x7.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers __0674750942

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
• Verlag: Harvard Univ Pr
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0674750942
• ISBN-13: 9780674750944
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Brand New
• Gewicht: 0,57 Kilogramm

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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