Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Introduction: The Biographical Literature of Mori Ogai 1
5. 1. Biography in the Japanese Literary Tradition 8
6. 2. On Literary Journalism and Self-Referentiality 30
7. 3. The Shiden of Mori Ogai: A Critical Overview 59
8. 4. What Has Ogai Wrought? A Compendium of Shiden Topics and Themes 87
9. 5. The Biographer and His Sources: On Documents, Informants, and the Literature of Fact 121
10. 6. Mori Ogai and the Biographical Quest 143
11. 7. A Genealogy of Exemplary Lives: Shibue Chusai and the Idealized Episode 177
12. 8. A Miscellany of Biographical Anecdotes and Vignettes from Shibue Chusai and Izawa Ranken 241
13. 9. Conclusion 274
14. Abbreviations Used in Citations 287
15. Notes 289
16. Bibliography 339
17. Glossary 345
18. Index 353