Theory of literature and other critical writings [electronic resource] / Natsume Sōseki ; edited by Michael K. Bourdaghs, Atsuko Ueda, and Joseph A. Murphy.
2009
PN45 .N356 2009eb
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Theory of literature and other critical writings [electronic resource] / Natsume Sōseki ; edited by Michael K. Bourdaghs, Atsuko Ueda, and Joseph A. Murphy.
Author
Natsume, Sōseki, 1867-1916.
ISBN
9780231518314 (electronic book)
9780231146562
0231146566
9780231465793
9780231146562
0231146566
9780231465793
Publication Details
New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the Japanese.
Description
1 online resource (viii, 287 p.) : ill.
Call Number
PN45 .N356 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
801
Summary
"Although Natsume Soseki is widely celebrated as Japan's greatest modern novelist, he began his writing career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. He would later look back on his Theory of Literature (1907) as an immature and unfinished work, but it is in fact an astonishingly original attempt at constructing a model for understanding all literature through the experience of reading." "The Theory of Literature foreshadows the ideas and concepts that would later form the critical foundations of formalism, structuralism, reader-response theory, cognitive science, and postcolonialism. It remains an unprecedented work of literary theory, unmistakably modern yet also clearly (and self-consciously) non-Western. In a later series of lectures and essays, Soseki continued to develop his ideas. This material, some of it never before translated into English, is also included in the volume. The editors offer a critical introduction that contextualizes Soseki's theoretical project historically and explores its contemporary legacy."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-279) and index.
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Weatherhead books on Asia.
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Table of Contents
pt 1. Excerpts from Theory of literature (Bungakuron, 1907)
pt 2. Other writings (1907-14)
Statement on joining the Asahi
Philosophical foundations of the literary arts
Preface to literary criticism
The Merits and flaws of -isms
My Individualism.
pt 2. Other writings (1907-14)
Statement on joining the Asahi
Philosophical foundations of the literary arts
Preface to literary criticism
The Merits and flaws of -isms
My Individualism.