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Essays on Japanese authors who achieved prominence and influenced literary development from the beginning of Japan's encounter with the West through the end of World War II. Includes discussion of the interplay between traditional Japanese views of fiction and literary concepts from the West that the Japanese examined, copied, reacted to, as well as the dominate literary form throughout the twentieth century, the I-novel or personal narrative.
Japanese fiction --- Novelists, Japanese --- Bio-bibliography --- Biography
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Essays on post World War II Japanese fiction writers. Novelists who participated in literary activity after 1945 shaped the direction of postwar Japanese fiction. Freed from censorship, significant war literature was written in the decade after the conflict. Established writers were able to resume work interrupted by the war and demands to write propaganda. Female authors would emerge to define the new role of their gender in this post-war period.
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Japanese fiction --- 1868-.... --- Bio-bibliography --- Dictionaries --- Novelists [Japanese ] --- 20th century --- Biography
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Novelists, Japanese --- Biography. --- Authors, Japanese --- Shikitei, Sanba, --- Shikitei, Samba, --- 式亭三馬, --- 式亭三马,
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Novelists, Japanese --- Biography --- Kawabata, Yasunari, --- Natsume, Sōseki --- Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō --- Kawabata, Yasunari
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"This is a comprehensive study of the literary world of Haruki Murakami. It explores the trajectory of Murakami's existentialist fiction, elucidating, both theoretically and biographically, how Murakami came in contact with Western philosophical writing; how his encounters with Sartre, Camus, and Kafka in particular had a decisive impact on his own creative career; and how his existentialist vision underwent different stages as he engaged in a unique, life-long project to respond creatively and critically to the sociocultural environment of his time. This work demonstrates that Murakami's fiction is not a mere product of popular culture intended for light reading-this study explores Murakami's work in its totality, paying attention to recurring themes and motives as well as favored metaphors and brings into relief a vision that penetrates Murakami's kaleidoscopic literary space. This opens up room for new ways of reading Murakami, deciphering the key themes that constitute his fictional world, shedding light on the underpinning problem consciousness that runs through Murakami's entire literary project. This study also contains great explication-de-texte of Murakami's major works. The study navigates readers into the depths of Murakami's literary space through the analysis of metaphors, recurring images, and evolving themes, introducing the relevant texts roughly in the chronological order of publication, and allows readers to get a grasp of the key features of the respective stories/novels. Attention given to the images woven in in a number of Murakami's fiction (e.g., the deep, dark well, white-walled hospitals, the paranormal yokai) helps us understand how Murakami's literary world develops and what constitutes the underlying current of his oeuvre. This book will be an important resource to scholars not only in modern and contemporary Japanese literature but also in literary studies in general because it highlights the question concerning the intertwining relationship between literature and society not simply on the surface level but on a deeper philosophical level and presents a strong argument on the potential power of literature"--
Japanese fiction --- Existentialism in literature --- Novelists, Japanese --- History and criticism --- Murakami, Haruki, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Murakami, Haruki
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Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese high school students have been expected to memorize passages from his novels and he is routinely voted the most important Japanese writer in national polls, he remains less familiar to Western readers than authors such as Kawabata, Tanizaki, and Mishima.In this biography, John Nathan provides a lucid and vivid account of a great writer laboring to create a remarkably original oeuvre in spite of the physical and mental illness that plagued him all his life. He traces Sōseki's complex and contradictory character, offering rigorous close readings of Sōseki's groundbreaking experiments with narrative strategies, irony, and multiple points of view as well as recounting excruciating hospital stays and recurrent attacks of paranoid delusion. Drawing on previously untranslated letters and diaries, published reminiscences, and passages from Sōseki's fiction, Nathan renders intimate scenes of the writer's life and distills a portrait of a tormented yet unflaggingly original author. The first full-length study of Sōseki in fifty years, Nathan's biography elevates Sōseki to his rightful place as a great synthesizer of literary traditions and a brilliant chronicler of universal experience who, no less than his Western contemporaries, anticipated the modernism of the twentieth century.
Novelists, Japanese --- Japanese novelists --- Natsume, Sōseki, --- 夏目漱石 --- Natsume, Kinnosuke --- Sōseki, Natsume --- Sōseki --- Hsia-mu, Shu-shih --- Xiamu, Shushi --- 夏目, 漱石 --- 夏目, 金之助
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J5931 --- J5500.90 --- J5506 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) -- criticism --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Literature -- reference works --- Japanese fiction --- Novelists, Japanese --- Japanese novelists --- Japanese literature --- Bio-bibliography&delete& --- Dictionaries --- Biography&delete& --- 20th century --- Bio-bibliography --- Novelists [Japanese ] --- Biography
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