Recontextualizing Texts. Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction

SAKAKI, Atsuko

ISBN 10: 0674750942 / ISBN 13: 9780674750944

Verlag: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1999

Beschreibung

279 p. [HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS ; 180].

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 012127

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Recontextualizing Texts. Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction
• Verlag: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0674750942
• ISBN-13: 9780674750944
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
• Buchtyp: Buch
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Literaturwissenschaft / Linguistik

Über diesen Titel

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.