Transformations of Sensibility : : The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature.

• Superior document: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies ; v.40
• Author: Kamei, Hideo.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bourdaghs, Michael K.
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies,, 2002.; ©2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (375 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editor's Introduction: Buried Modernities-The Phenomenological Criticism of Kamei Hideo -- Author's Preface to the English Translation -- Chapter One. The Disappearance of the Non-Person Narrator: Changing Sensibilities in Futabatei Shimei -- Chapter Two. The Transformability of Self-Consciousness: Fantasies of Self in the Political Novel -- Chapter Three. The Captured "I": Tsubouchi Shōyō and the Doctrine of Success -- Chapter Four. "An Oddball Rich in Dreams": Mori Ōgai and His Critics -- Chapter Five. The Words of the Other: From Tamenaga Shunsui to Nakae Chōmin -- Chapter Six. The Structure of Rage: The Polyphonic Fiction of Higuchi Ichiyō -- Chapter Seven. Shinjū as Misdeed: Love Suicides in Higuchi Ichiyō and Chikamatsu Monzaemon -- Chapter Eight. The Burdens of Ethicality: Izumi Kyōka and the Emergence of the Split Subject -- Chapter Nine. The Self-Destructing World of Significance: Inner Speech in Izumi Kyōka and Ryūrō -- Chapter Ten. The Demon of Katagi Possession and Character in Kōda Rohan -- Chapter Eleven. Discrimination and the Crisis of Seeing: Prejudices of Landscape in Shimazaki Tōson, Masaoka Shiki, and Uchimura Kanzō -- Chapter Twelve. Until the Disciplining of Nature: Travel Writing at Home and Abroad -- Afterword to the Japanese Edition (1983) -- Index -- About the Author -- About the Translation Editor.