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(★)(Thomas Rimer´s book seeks to explain the background, structural principles, and development of pre-modern and modern Japanese fiction in a way that is comprehensive, methodical, and accessible to the general reader. While a certain amount of critical attention has been focused on what Japanese fiction is not, Professor Rimer tries to determine what the general principles of the tradition of that fiction are. Treating such classic works as ´The Tale of Genji´and ´The Tale of the Heike´, both as masterpieces in their own right and as literary and cultural paradigms for the work of later writers, the author traces important elements of the tradition in such modern writers as Natsume Soseki, Mori Ogai, Kawabata Yasunari, and Ibuse Masuji. Along the way he provides explanations of crucial aesthetic terms as well as analyses of the literary structures of each work. Copious quotations from translations of the original texts give a specific context for the principles he elucidates. professor Rimer shows how the Japanese tradition, as it developed, produced a close interplay of thematic and narrative structures that came in turn to represent the central element in a highly coherent literary aesthetic. By centering each work precisely in Japanese tradition, he helps us to appreciate more fully its special beauties and accomplishments. J. Thomas Rimer is Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at Washington University and the author of ´Toward a Modern Japanese Theatre : Kishida Kunio [Princeton]´.／ ▼CONTENTS／ ●I.INTRODUCTION ●II.TANIZAKI JUNICHIRO : The Past as Homage (´A Portrait of Shunkin´ and ´The Bridge of Dreams´) ●III.NATSUME SOSEKI : 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´no´ Drama´ ●VII.UEDA AKINARI : The Past as Art ´Tales of Moonlight and Rain´ ●VIII.NAGAI KAFU and MORI OGAI : The Past versus the Present ´The River Sumida´ and ´Sanshoo 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, ENDO, KAIKO, ABE ●XIII.A FEW FINAL REMARKS ●APPENDIX I : ´Taketori monogatari´ ●APPENDIX II : A Brief Bibliography for Further Reading) |
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