An inquiry into "a history of the rise and fall of Japanese literature" by Takahashi Genichiro
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation comprises a study and a partial annotated translation of "Nihon bungaku seisuishi" (A History of the Rise and Fall of Japanese Literature) by Takahashi Gen'ichirō. The study focuses on the confrontation between literary history and the contemporary frame dramatized in the narrative of "Seisuishi, " a novel that combines the staid discourse of literary historiography with the semiotic chaos of postmodern fiction. As bungaku literature, a self-reflexive genre attuned to the cultural specificities of its own mode of textuality, "Seisuishi" radically recontextualizes classic works of modern Japanese literature to generate the possibility of authentic encounters with the literary past that are nonetheless thoroughly of the present moment. Through opening and interrogating spaces of literary secularity, "Seisuishi" serves as fruitful grounds for exploring the applicability of religious metaphors in figuring authorial stances vis-à-vis the concept and practice of literature. The final portion of the study examines how the novel incorporates marginalized female voices to highlight and critique its status as a work of male literature.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Singleton, Kevin |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. |
| Primary advisor | Carter, Steven D |
| Primary advisor | Reichert, Jim (James Robert) |
| Thesis advisor | Carter, Steven D |
| Thesis advisor | Reichert, Jim (James Robert) |
| Thesis advisor | Levy, Indra A |
| Advisor | Levy, Indra A |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Kevin Singleton. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2017. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2017 by Kevin Andrew Singleton
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