Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction: Narratives of Japanese Modernity 1
5. Part I: The Novel and the Self as Master Signifiers
6. 1 The Position of the ( Shosetsu ': Paradigm Change and New Literary Discourse 13
7. 2 Self, Christianity, and Language: 'Genbun-itchi' and Concern for the Self 33
8. 3 The Furor over the !-Novel: The Question of Authenticity 48
9. Part II: Rereading the I-Novel
10. 4 Love, Sexuality, and Nature: Tayama Katai's (Quilt' and Japanese Naturalism 67
11. 5 Shaping Life, Shaping the Past: Shiga Naoya's Narratives of Recollection 93
12. Part III: Traces if the Self
13. 6 Crossing Boundaries: Truth and Fiction in Nagai Kafu's 'Strange Tale from East of the River' 133
14. 7 Allegories of Modernity: Parodic Confession in Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's 'Fool's Love' 151
15. Epilogue: Tanizaki's Speaking Subject and Creation of Tradition 175
16. Reference Matter
17. Notes 187
18. Bibliography 221
19. Index 235