The Rhetoric of Confession
Subtitle: <i>Shishosetsu</i> in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 23, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780520078833
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Japanese Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Japanese; Literary Criticism; Japan; Asian - Japanese; Literary Criticism & Collections / General
First sentence: There is an unmistakable mystique about the shishosetsu, begotten by the special status it enjoys as a "truthful" account of its author, which has traditionally discouraged anything more than a cursory analysis of it as a literary artifact.