Rituals of self-revelation: Shishōsetsu as literary genre and socio-cultural phenomenon

Autori

• Irmela Hijiya Kirschnereit

Parametri

• Letteratura mondiale
• Narrativa
• Harvard East Asian monographs

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This thorough and insightful study of the Japanese version of the I-novel provides a means of researching and interpreting the whole tradition of this genre, linking it to the forms of autobiographical fiction as well as to the cultural assumptions and ways of thinking of the classical period of Japanese history.

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1996