
The Rhetoric of Confession
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.
The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical
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- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: presentation and representation in the Shishosetsu
- Part 1. The "transparent" text
- 1. Fictions and fabrications
- 2. Language and the illusion of presence
- 3. Shishosetsu criticism and the myth of sincerity
- Part 2. The rise of a form
- 4. Harbingers (I): Tokoku, Doppo, Hogetsu
- 5. Harbingers (II): Katai, Homei
- 6. The Bundan: readers, writers, critics
- Part 3. Three approaches to experience
- 7. Chikamatsu Shuko: the hero as fool
- 8. Shiga Naoya: the hero as sage
- 9. Kasai Zenzo: the hero as victim
- Epilogue: The shishosetsu today
- Bibliography
- Index
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