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Abe Akira, 297

Abe Kobo, 291

Abiko, as setting in Shiga Naoya's fiction, 209

Ackroyd, Joyce, 192 n, 199 n

Activism, political, 78 , 83 , 96

Actor-audience relationship, xxv

Adolphe (Constant), 121 n

Adversative passive, 256

Aeba Takeo, 211 n, 281

Akagi Kohei, 149 , 152 , 185

Akiyama Shun, 230 n, 235 n

Akutagawa Ryunosuke, xvi , 69 ;

on Chikamatsu Shuko, 182 -83;

on confessional literature, 290 ;

death of, 188 ;

elitism of, 137 -38;

Kasai Zenzo on, 294 ;

literary output of, 250 ;

on Shiga Naoya, 187 -88, 196 ;

on Shimazaki Toson, 111 ;

on shishosetsu , 50 ;

shishosetsu by, 294 .

Texts: Bungeiteki na, amari ni bungeiteki na , 187 ;

Haguruma , 187 n, 294 ;

"Shuju no kotoba," 52 n, 290 ;

"'Watakushi' shosetsu shoken," 50 n

Alcoholism, Kasai Zenzo and, 249 , 250 -51, 276 , 280 -81, 285

Alexandria Quartet (Durrell), 164

Alienation, 13 n, 81 , 151

Alvarez, A., 248

Anata (pronominal), 175 , 298

Andreyev, Leonid, 252 n

Anonymity:

of Chinese fiction writers, 21 ;

of Japanese writers, 55 ;

Shiga Naoya's urge toward, 190 ;

of western writers, 55

An'ta (pronominal), use of, 175

An'ya koro (Shiga Naoya), 14 , 132 , 184 , 190 n, 224 -46, 247 ;

author-hero identification in, 226 -29, 238 -40;

characterization in, 233 -34;

childhood memories in, 237 ;

completion of, 246 ;

continuity in, 234 -36;

critical studies of, 224 -46;

drafts of, 230 -31, 235 -39;

hero's self-absorption in, 233 -34;

Edwin McClellan's translation of, xi , 227 n, 239 n, 242 n, 243 n;

narrative change in, 242 -43, 246 ;

point of view in, 242 -43;

as primer for reading shishosetsu , 228 -29;

as "realistic" novel, 242 -46;

Shiga Naoya on, 243 ;

structure of, 229 , 230 , 235 ;

tenuousness of plot in, 229 -33;

textual history of, 225 , 229 -32;

themes in, 224 , 225 , 233 , 234 ;

time in, 229

Criticism:

Dazai Osamu on, 225 , 226 , 232 ;

Hirano Ken on, 230 n;

Hiraoka Tokuyoshi on, 235 n, 237 n, 240 ;

Kobayashi Hideo on, 190 n, 224 , 240 ;

Kono Toshiro on, 236 ;

Edwin McClellan on, 224 ;

Miyoshi Yukio on, 224 , 226 , 230 , 232 n, 233 , 241 ;

Nakamura Mitsuo on, 224 , 225 , 230 , 232 n, 241 ;

Nakano Shigeharu on, 227 -28, 229 -30, 238 , 241

Arab writers, xxviii

Arai Hakuseki, 191 , 192 n, 199

Archaic language, use of, 272 . See also Colloquial style

Arishima, Takeo, 132 , 149 , 191

Aristotle, on imitation, xxiiin

Art:

Akutagawa Ryunosuke on, 50 ;

experience and, 144 ;

Kunikida Doppo on, 90 ;

morality and, 48 ;

private life and, 54 -55, 193 ;

reality and, 18 n, religion and, 94 ;

Tayama Katai on, 107 -8;

truth and, 25 , 50 , 93 ;

unity of life and, 213

Asahi (newspaper), 110 , 130 , 134 , 135 t, 140 , 221 n, 231

Audience, xxv , 38 , 93 ;

Chikamatsu Shuko and, 160 -62, 167 ;

interpretation and, xvii -xviii, xxviii , 192 , 273 , 275 -79;

reading and, xvii .

See also Reader

Auerbach, Erich, 19 n

Authenticity, x , 10 , 108 , 238 -39, 245 , 292 ;

of text, 7 , 261 ;

of unmediated transcription, 65 -66, 261 , 282 , 295 .

See also Sincerity; Written reportive style

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Author:

absence of in text, 49 , 51 , 69 ;

of autobiographies, xx ;

contract with reader, 216 ;

death of, 6 ;

distancing of, 121 n, 201 , 237 -38;

equation of hero and, xi , 8 -9, 89 , 127 , 189 , 193 , 200 , 202 , 216 , 226 -29, 238 -40, 254 -55, 265 ;

as fictive persona, xix , 8 -9, 41 , 46 , 143 -44, 195 , 238 , 241 n, 254 -56;

as guide to reader, 193 , 205 ;

moral development of, 192 ;

newspaper accounts of, 136 -37;

as outcast, 62 -63, 130 , 190 ;

presence of in text, xxvi , 7 , 9 , 42 , 43 , 50 , 51 , 194 , 210 , 212 , 241 n, 266 , 291 , 297 ;

private life and, 15 ;

relationship to writing, 190 ;

as sage, 46 , 192 -204, 211 , 246 , 281 ;

sincerity of, 65 -69, 188 , 205 ;

society and, 51 -58, 78 -81;

writer's block, 264 -65, 279 .

See also Bundan , Narrative; Self; Shishosetsu ; Shosetsu ; specific texts and writers

Authority:

Japanese writers and, xxii ;

in narrative, ix , xi , 30 , 279 ;

realism and, xxiii ;

religion and, ix , xxiii

Autobiography, 152 n, 189 ;

Futon as, 109 -23;

popularity of in Japan, 112 ;

relation to fiction, xx , xxvi ;

shishosetsu and, xxii , 63 ;

in west, xix .