Detective fiction and the rise of the Japanese novel, 1880-1930
By: Satoru Saito
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 346
Publisher: The Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674065864
Subjects: Japanese fiction; History and criticism; Western influences; Japanese Detective and mystery stories
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The novel's other : detective fiction and the literary project of Tsubouchi Shoyo; title: Allegories of detective fiction : Kuroiwa Ruiko and the refashioning of a Meiji subject; title: Of crimes and punishments : the tribulations of Meiji students in the writings of Japanese naturalism; title: Mysteries of the modern subject : the detective and the detective fiction framework in the writings of Natsume Soseki; title: Rhetoric of disavowal : "secrets and liberation" and the specters of the West; title: Detecting the unconscious : Edogawa Ranpo and the emergence of the Japanese detective.