Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings.

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Author / Creator:Natsume, Sōseki, 1867-1916.
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (301 pages)
Language:English
Series:Weatherhead Books on Asia
Weatherhead books on Asia.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11167295
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Other authors / contributors:Bourdaghs, Michael.
Ueda, Atsuko.
Murphy, Joseph.
ISBN:9780231518314
0231518315
0231465793
9780231465793
0231146566
9780231146562
9780231465793
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the Japanese.
Print version record.
Summary:Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro, Sanshiro, and I Am a Cat. Yet he began his career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. In 1907, he published Theory of Literature, a remarkably forward-thinking attempt to understand how and why we read. The text anticipates by decades the ideas and concepts of formalism, structuralism, reader-response theory, and postcolonialism, as well as cognitive approaches to literature that are only now gaini.
Other form:Print version: Soseki, Natsume. Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008 9780231146579
Standard no.:9786612796456
Publisher's no.:EB00662540 Recorded Books