Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: Overthrowing the Emperor in Japanese Literary Studies
Part One. Pieces of the Linguistic Turn: Translations
Chapter 1. Flowers with a Very Human Name: One Kokugaku Scholar Pursues the Truth about the Mysterious Death of Yūgao
Chapter 2. The Embodied Self
Chapter 3. The Narrative Apparatus of Modern Literature: The Shifting "Standpoint" of Early Meiji Writers
Chapter 4. Introduction to the Discourse of the Modern Novel: "Time" in the Novel and Literary Language
Part Two. Theories and Politics of Language
Chapter 5. Kokugogaku versus Gengogaku: Language Process Theory and Tokieda's Construction of Saussure Sixty Years Later
Chapter 6. Theories of Language in the Field of Philosophy: Japan in the 1970s
Chapter 7. Tactics of the Universal: "Language" in Yoshimoto Takaaki
Chapter 8. Narration and Revolution: An Invitation to the Writings of Kobayashi Takiji
Part Three. Rethinking Meiji Literature
Chapter 9. The Age of the Prize Contest Novel
Chapter 10. The Politics of Canon Formation and Writing Style: A Linguistic Analysis of Kajin no kigū
Chapter 11. Elegance, Propriety, and Power in the "Modernization"of Literary Language in Meiji Japan
Chapter 12. The Voice of Sex and the Sex of Voice in Higuchi Ichiyō and Shimizu Shikin
Contributors
Index