Offering the first systematic examination of five modern Japanese fictional narratives, all of them available in English translations, Atsuko Sakaki explores Natsume S?seki’s Kokoro and Kusamakura (The Three-Cornered World); Ibuse Masuji’s Kuroi ame (Black Rain); Mori ?gai’s Gan (Wild Geese); and Tanizaki Jun’ichir?’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.
| ISBN: | 9780674750944 |
| Publication date: | 25th May 1999 |
| Author: | Atsuko Sakaki |
| Publisher: | Harvard University, Asia Center |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 286 pages |
| Series: | Harvard East Asian Monographs |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |