Theory of literature and other critical writings
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro, Sanshiro, and I Am a Cat. Yet he began his career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. In 1907, he published Theory of Literature, a remarkabl...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2009
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| Series: | Weatherhead books on Asia
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| Summary: | Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro, Sanshiro, and I Am a Cat. Yet he began his career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. In 1907, he published Theory of Literature, a remarkably forward-thinking attempt to understand how and why we read. The text anticipates by decades the ideas and concepts of formalism, structuralism, reader-response theory, and postcolonialism, as well as cognitive approaches to literature that are only now gaini. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 287 p. 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9780231146562 (cloth : alk. paper) |