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Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu
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Full Title:
Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu
Contributors:
By (Author) Alan Stephen Wolfe
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Dewey:
895.6344
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
280
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
397g
Description
Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on contemporary Western literary and cultural theories and on a knowledge of Dazai's work in the context
