TY - BOOK AU - Marcus,Marvin TI - Paragons of the Ordinary: The Biographical Literature of Mori Ogai SN - 9780824840327 AV - PL811.O7 Z768 1993 U1 - 895.6/342 20 PY - 2022///] CY - Honolulu : PB - University of Hawaii Press, KW - Biography as a literary form KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: The Biographical Literature of Mori Ogai --; 1. Biography in the Japanese Literary Tradition --; 2. On Literary Journalism and Self-Referentiality --; 3. The Shiden of Mori Ogai: A Critical Overview --; 4. What Has Ogai Wrought? A Compendium of Shiden Topics and Themes --; 5. The Biographer and His Sources: On Documents, Informants, and the Literature of Fact --; 6. Mori Ogai and the Biographical Quest --; 7. A Genealogy of Exemplary Lives: Shibue Chusai and the Idealized Episode --; 8. A Miscellany of Biographical Anecdotes and Vignettes from Shibue Chusai and Izawa Ranken --; 9. Conclusion --; Abbreviations Used in Citations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Glossary --; Index; restricted access UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824840327 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824840327 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824840327/original ER -