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
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9781400861002

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