| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) |
| Series |
Studies of the East Asian Institute |
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Studies of the East Asian Institute.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Introduction Saint of Negativity; Part 1: Nation and Suicidal Narrative; Part 2: Suicidal Autobiography; Part 3: Japanese Littératuricide and Postwar Rebirth |
| Summary |
Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on contemporary Western literary and cultural theories and on a knowledge of Dazai's work in the context of Japanese literary history to provide a fresh view of major texts by this important literary figure. In the process, Wolfe revises Japanese as well as Western scholarship on Dazai and discovers new connections among suicide, autobiography, alie |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dazai, Osamu, 1909-1948 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Dazai, Osamu, 1909-1948 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Dazai, Osamu, 1909-1948 fast |
| Subject |
Suicide in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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Suicide in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400861002 |
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1400861004 |
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