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.
- ISBN10 0520046099
- ISBN13 9780520046092
- Publish Date 1 January 1982
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 July 1993
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 216
- Language English