Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan : The Case of Dazai Osamu

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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 the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolfe, Alan Stephen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dazai, Osamu, > 1909-1948.
Dazai, Osamu, > 1909-1948 > Criticism and interpretation.
Suicide in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
Suicide dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction Saint of Negativity; Part 1: Nation and Suicidal Narrative; Part 2: Suicidal Autobiography; Part 3: Japanese Litteraturicide and Postwar Rebirth.

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