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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 158–160.
Published: 01 February 1989
...Mary N. Layoun The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishōsetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction . By Edward Fowler . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1988 . xxx, 333 pp. $32.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 158 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 503–504.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Dennis Washburn Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishōsetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-Cultural Phenomenon . By Irmela Hijiya-Kirschmereit . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1996 . xxiv, 373 pp. $42.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 501–503.
Published: 01 May 1997
... will notice such lapses in this volume. K A R E N L. B R O C K Washington University, Saint Louis Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishosetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-Cultural Phenomenon, By IRMELA HlJlYA-Kl.RSCHMEREiT. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. xxiv, 373 pp. $42.00 (paper...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 157–158.
Published: 01 February 1989
... cinema, art, and popular culture. J. L. ANDERSON WGBH Educational Foundation The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishosetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction. By EDWARD FOWLER. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. xxx, 333 pp. $32.50. Edward Fowler's The Rhetoric of Confession...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (4): 795–797.
Published: 01 August 1981
..., that there has scarcely been time to discriminate between an important writer and one who is not. At least in Shiga's case, when we recall that since the early 1920s a recurrent literary controversy has focused on the nature and influence, baleful or otherwise, of the shishosetsu (as Sibley renders it, "personal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (4): 794–795.
Published: 01 August 1981
... a recurrent literary controversy has focused on the nature and influence, baleful or otherwise, of the shishosetsu (as Sibley renders it, "personal fiction that this mode of writing continues to dominate Japanese fiction, even in the postwar era; and that Shiga is typically singled out as the model...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (4): 1012–1013.
Published: 01 November 1993
... dismissed; Kokoro gets canonized; and genbun'itchi, shizenshugi ({Japanese] naturalism), and shishosetsu (I-novel) become instituted as the most "naturally" Japanese expressions. In his chapters on Shusei, Fujii challenges the established labeling of shizenshugi imposed on his works. In order to distance...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 278–280.
Published: 01 February 2010
... on his writings. The text is organized chronologically, beginning with Nakagami's childhood in Shingu City and his first literary endeavors in the genre of poetry, through his relocation to Tokyo and development into a mature and respected writer of shishôsetsu (biographical fiction), monogatari...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 652–653.
Published: 01 August 1988
... for their social and literary concerns. In these works, as in "A Woman Writer," "Self-Mockery," and "A Genius of Imitation," the emphasis on the lives and works of women shows the significance of the shishosetsu mode of autobiographical fiction. Such writing presents the interconnectedness of social, political...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (4): 797–798.
Published: 01 August 1981
... REVIEWS JAPAN 797 Shiga's shishosetsu have been as narrow in their biographical bias as Sibley suggests; at any rate, he might have cited which critics he had especially in mind. For one enthusiastic about Sibley's work, as I am, praise comes easy. It is plain that his book is one of stunning critical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 412–413.
Published: 01 May 2022
... that purposely avoids the more common genre designation of “I-novel” ( shishōsetsu ) (p. 3)—the study proposes a new Buddhist reading of key notions of modern Japanese literary discourse, such as the practice of confession and the realist catchphrase of describing things “just as they are” ( ari no mama ). While...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 221–222.
Published: 01 February 2022
... this multiplicity” (p. 127) at scale. Chapter 3, “Genre and Repetition,” explores the “slippery ontological status” (p. 128) of the I-novel ( shishōsetsu ) by building a model to synchronically and diachronically compare stylistic techniques and assess “the belief that I-novels represent a coherent genre” (p...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 504–506.
Published: 01 May 1997
... other narrative modes. Thus, it is crucial to any analysis of Shishosetsu to examine the relationship between factuality and focus figure with reference to the historical development of rhetorical conventions. The author occasionally acknowledges the limitations of her study on this score, but never...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1014–1016.
Published: 01 November 1996
...," Suzuki argues that this search for a "true modern self was the primary force behind the creation of the shishosetsu, and she cites diverse Japanese critical sources to demonstrate that much of our current "understanding" of the I-novel derives from evaluations written decades after the early shi-shosetsu...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 213–215.
Published: 01 February 1997
... to the alternative, subversive visions of society constituted by the "fantastic." While we have seen several recent studies of the relationship of "realist" Japanese narrative to the construction of consensus reality (in the shishosetsu, for example), this may well be the first extended discussion of the significant...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 230–232.
Published: 01 February 2001
... in modern Japanese literature the contradiction that when Japanese male writers write in a lyric mode, as they do often in the shishosetsu, it is extolled, but when a woman writer does the same thing, it is denigrated as "feminine." Throughout the book, Wilson makes use of critical lenses crafted by Western...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 211–213.
Published: 01 February 1997
... (in the shishosetsu, for example), this may well be the first extended discussion of the significant and, as Napier convincingly argues, continuous tradition of the production of literary alternatives to the seamless social narratives of modern Japan. SHARALYN ORBAUGH University of California, Berkeley To Dream...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1163–1167.
Published: 01 November 2007
... (Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 2002), are omitted. Other useful additions to the bibliography would include Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishōsetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-cultural Phenomenon (Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies,1996), which...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 13 (1): 3–22.
Published: 01 November 1953
... (and the author's) very personal life with which this work is concerned. Despite the torments which the main character undergoes, he does not, as others do in many stories belonging to the category of shishosetsu or private, "first person" fiction, fall into a state of utter depression, but comes, as one analyst...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (3): 347–354.
Published: 01 May 1955
..., 30 (Dec. 1953), 46-55; Usui Yoshimi, "Shinkyo'-shosetsu ronso" (The shinkyo'-shosetsu controversy), Bungakkai, 8 (Nov. 1954), 152-59. 'Introduced in the early 1920's under the alternative (and still common) reading watakushi-shosetsu. Inagaki Tatsuro, "Shi-shosetsu to shosetsu janru" (The shishosetsu...