Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishōsetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-Cultural Phenomenon by Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit

Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishōsetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-Cultural Phenomenon

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit

373 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary medium-paced

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Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit brings a sophisticated and graceful method of analysis to this English translation of her book on the shishosetsu, one of the most important yet misunderstood genres in Japanese literature. Thorough and insightful, this ...

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