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Fictions of Desire : Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafu /

Snyder, Stephen

Fictions of Desire : Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafu / Stephen Snyder. - 1 online resource (208 p.)

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. ŌGAI, KAFŪ, AND THE LIMITS OF FICTION -- CHAPTER 2. MAUPASSANT AND AMERIKA MONOGATARI -- CHAPTER 3. UDEKURABE: THE DEMIMONDE EAST AND WEST -- CHAPTER 4. FRUSTRATED FORM: NARRATIVE SUBVERSION IN OKAMEZASA -- CHAPTER 5. BOKUTŌ KIDAN: A "STRANGE TALE" AND THE SELFCONSCIOUS MODERN -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Stephen Snyder examines Kafu's fiction in terms of narrative strategy, placing him squarely within some of the most important currents of literary modernism--at the nexus of Naturalism and the largely antithetical development of the modernist reflexive novel.




Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780824821470 9780824862510

10.1515/9780824862510 doi


Japanese fiction--History and criticism.--1868-
LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese.

895.6/342