Accomplices of Silence: Modern Japanese Novel - Hardcover

Miyoshi, Masao

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520025407 ISBN 13: 9780520025400

Publisher: University of California Press, 1974

Synopsis

The Japanese novel, lately so widely translated, is finding a broader and better informed readership than ever before. Until now, however, no comprehensive critical discussion of the form has been available in a Western language. Masao Miyoshi offers an intensive reading of several outstanding novels of the past hundred years. He explains that the Japanese novel, usually regarded as basically Western in style, retains native elements that utterly resist Western influence. Citing Western, especially English, novels for comparison, he demonstrates how the Japanese novel differs in important formal aspects.

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About the Author:

Masao Miyoshi is Hajime Mori Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparitive Literature Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Off Center: Power and Culture Relations between Japan and the United States.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0520025407
• ISBN 13: 9780520025400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 212