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Author Soseki, Natsume.

Title Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (301 pages).
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Series Weatherhead Books on Asia
Weatherhead books on Asia.
Contents Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1; Preface; Book 1; Book 2; Book 3; Book 4; Book 5; Part 2; Statement on Joining the Asahi; Philosophical Foundations of the Literary Arts; ""Preface"" to Literary Criticism; The Merits and Flaws of -isms; My Individualism; Notes; Index.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Language Translated from the Japanese.
Subject Literature.
Literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Bourdaghs, Michael K.
Ueda, Atsuko.
Murphy, Joseph.
Other Form: Print version: Soseki, Natsume. Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008 9780231146579
ISBN 9780231518314
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0231146566
9780231146562
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