Narrating the Self
Subtitle: Fictions of Japanese Modernity
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: July 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780804731621
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Japanese; Literary Criticism; Japan; Asian - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian
First sentence: In an article written in 1950, Terada Toru (1915- ), a critic and scholar of French literature, astutely noted that "watakushi /shi-shosetsu is no more than a formal designation in that we can never tell what is contained in it. . . .The term forces the reader to confront a word whose resonance is much greater than what it designates, the meaning of which is only vaguely understood in common usage."