Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780674750944)

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.

Author: Atsuko Sakaki
ISBN-10: 0674750942
ISBN-13: 9780674750944
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/25/1999
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.36w x 1.03d