Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Weatherhead Books on Asia
ISBN-10
0231146574
ISBN-13
9780231146579
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Imprint
Columbia University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 15th, 2010
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
424 grams
Product Classification:
Literary theory
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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 gaining traction. Employing the cutting-edge approaches of contemporary psychology and sociology, Soseki created a model for studying the conscious experience of reading literature as well as a theory for how the process changes over time and across cultures. Along with Theory of Literature, this volume reproduces a later series of lectures and essays in which Soseki continued to develop his theories. By insisting that literary taste is socially and historically determined, Soseki was able to challenge the superiority of the Western canon, and by grounding his theory in scientific knowledge, he was able to claim a universal validity.
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