Recontextualizing Texts
Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
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Word Count
71,500 words, Guess
Page Count
286 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7693392M
- ISBN-139780674750944
- ISBN-100674750942
- OCLC Control Number40521291
- OCLC Control Numberrecontextualizin0000saka
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number98054779
- Goodreads2679636
- LibraryThing5646083
- AmazonB0728BL7FF
- Better World BooksBWBM51453699
Classifications
- LCCPL747.55 .S239 1999
Description
This book offers the first systematic application in English of speech act theory to modern Japanese fictional narratives, based on a reading of five modern Japanese shosetsu as performances enacted by the narrator and the narratees in each text: Natsume Soseki's Kokoro and The Three-Cornered World (Kusamakura), Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain (Kuroi ame); Mori Ogai's Wild Geese (Gan), and Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's Quicksand (Manji). Sakaki's close reading of each text and her concern with narrative performance reveal a hitherto unexplored area of communications between narrator and narratee, as well as between "encoded author" and "encoded reader," within the text - an area overshadowed to date by interest in thematic concerns and political contexts.
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