Offering the first systematic examination of five modern Japanese fictional narratives, all of them available in English translations, Atsuko Sakaki explores Natsume Soseki's Kokoro and Kusamakura (The Three-Cornered World); Ibuse Masuji's Kuroi ame (Black Rain); Mori Ogai's Gan (Wild Geese); and Tanizaki Jun'ichiro'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 an imprint of Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Harvard East Asian Monographs |
| Genres: |
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Offering the first systematic examination of five modern Japanese fictional narratives, all of them available in English translations, Atsuko Sakaki explores Natsume Soseki's Kokoro and Kusamakura (The Three-Cornered World); Ibuse Masuji's Kuroi ame (Black Rain); Mori Ogai's Gan (Wild Geese); and Tanizaki Jun'ichiro'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.
Recontextualizing Texts features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
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Recontextualizing Texts was written by Atsuko Sakaki and published by Harvard University Asia Center an imprint of Harvard University Press
Recontextualizing Texts has 272 pages
Yes it is part of Harvard East Asian Monographs series