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The rhetoric of confession :

Fowler, Edward.

The rhetoric of confession : shish�osetsu in early twentieth-century Japanese fiction / Edward Fowler. - Oxford : University of California Press, �1988. - 1 online resource (xxix, 333 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-313) and index.

Fictions and fabrications -- Language and the illusion of presence -- Shishosetsu criticism and the myth of sincerity -- Harbingers (I): Tokoku, Doppo, Hogetsu -- Harbingers (II): Katai, Homei -- The Bundan: Readers, writers, critics -- Chikamatsu Shuko: the hero as fool -- Shiga Naoya: the hero as sage -- Kasai Zenzo: the hero as victim -- Epilogue: the Shisshosetsu.

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Autobiographical fiction, Japanese--History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Asian--General.
Autobiographical fiction, Japanese.


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

PL747.63.A85 / F695 1988

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