Modern Japanese Fiction and Its Traditions : : An Introduction / / J. Thomas Rimer.
Thomas Rimer's book seeks to explain the background, structural principles, and development of pre-modem and modern Japanese fiction in a way that is comprehensive, methodical, and accessible to the general reader.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-o...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1978 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- I. Introduction
- II. Tanizaki Junichirō: The Past as Homage A Portrait of Shunkin and The Bridge of Dreams
- III. Natsume Sōseki: The Past as Style Kusamakura
- IV. Antecedents: The Tale, the Diary, the monogatari, the Essay
- V. Source Books I: Tales of Ise, The Tale of Genji
- VI. Source Books II: The Tale of the Heike and the nō Drama
- VII. Ueda Akinari: The Past as Art Tales of Moonlight and Rain
- VIII. Nagai Kafū and Mori Ōgai: The Past versus the Present The River Sumida and Sanshō the Steward
- IX. Kawabata Yasunari: Eastern Approaches Snow Country
- X. Dazai Osamu: The Death of the Past The Setting Sun
- XI. The Tale of Genji as a Modern Novel
- XII. Tradition and Contemporary Consciousness: Ibuse, Endō, Kaiko, Abe
- XIII. A Few Final Remarks
- Appendix I: Taketori monogatari
- Appendix II: A Brief Bibliography for Further Reading
- Index
- Backmatter