Japanese fiction writers, 1868-1945 / editor, Van C. Gessel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gessel, Van C., Contributor.

Series:

Dictionary of literary biography Japanese fiction writers, 1868-1945

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese fiction--Bio-bibliography--1868---Dictionaries.

Japanese fiction.

Novelists, Japanese--Biography--20th century--Dictionaries.

Novelists, Japanese.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Gale Research, 1997

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essays on Japanese authors who achieved prominence and influenced literary development from the beginning of Japan's encounter with the West through the end of World War II. Includes discussion of the interplay between traditional Japanese views of fiction and literary concepts from the West that the Japanese examined, copied, reacted to, as well as the dominate literary form throughout the twentieth century, the I-novel or personal narrative.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph