- Editorial Conventions
- Introduction: Reading Text Contextually
- 1. The Debates on Kokoro: A Cornerstone
- What Is the Kokoro ronsō?
- A Structuralist Reading of Kokoro and Its “Naturalness” in the North American Critical Context
- The Place of the Author: The Reception of Komori’s Article in Japan
- Who Is the ”Reader” in Reader Response Criticism?
- Komori Deconstructing Komori
- As a Point of Departure for Unexplored Territories
- 2. Obsessed with Inscription: Ibuse Masuji’s Kuroi ame, or (Re)Writing Memories
- Reading a Historical Narrative as a Performance?
- Faith in the Authenticity of Written Accounts
- The Power of Oral Discourse
- Stationery—The Contextuality of Narration Preserved in Texts
- Contextuality in the Text, Denied and Sought
- Well-intended “Censorship”: Yasuko and Absence of Communication
- Memory Eroded by Narration
- Old Calendars: Time Recovered
- 3. Unmaking the Tableau: Natsume Sōseki’s Kusamakura and Gender/Genre Politics
- Like a Painter, Like a Poet: “I” as Transparent Agent
- Metaphor Versus Metonymy: The Disciplines of Text Construction
- Insistence on Integrity, Resistance to Heterogeneity
- Hierarchizing Literary Genres: Kusamakura as a Meta-Novel
- From Impersonal “I” to Private “Eye”
- Subversive Intent: The De-colonization of Nami
- Becoming a Story?: Conflicting Interpretation of the Picture’s Final Touch
- 4. Thinking Beauty, Unseeing Scholar: Displaced Narrative Authority in Mori Ōgai’s Gan
- Reading Gan Through Genette
- The Authorial Gesture of the Narrator
- Polyphonic Narrative and Authorial Control
- Dissolution of Male Comradeship
- Telling in Order to Erase: Narrative Manipulation
- The Invisible/Silent Woman and the Man Without Eyes or Ears
- 5. Doing Things with Words: Acts and Efforts in Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s Manji
- The Author as Narratee
- Female Voice, Male Hand?: An Invisible Dialogue
- Expectations and Effects of Silence and Confessions
- Narrative Versions
- From the Pleasure of Deception to the Agony of Honesty
- Conclusion: Literature/Criticism as a Speech Act
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS
Harvard East Asian Monographs 180
Recontextualizing Texts
Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction
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Publication Date: 05/25/1999
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