| Description |
1 online resource (433 pages). |
| Series |
Weatherhead Books on Asia |
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Weatherhead books on Asia.
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| Note |
Print version record. |
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Published in 1917, Light and Dark is unlike any of Natsume Soseki's previous works and unique in Japanese fiction of the period. What distinguishes the novel as?modern" is its remarkable representation of interiority. The protagonists, Tsuda Yoshio, thirty, and his wife O-Nobu, twenty-three, exhibit a gratifying complexity that qualifies them as some of the earliest examples of three-dimensional characters in Japanese fiction. O-Nobu is quick-witted and cunning, a snob and narcissist no less than her husband, passionate, arrogant, spoiled, insecure, naive?yet, above all, gallant. Under Soseki' |
| Subject |
Japan -- Fiction.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Japanese.
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Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Author |
Nathan, John, 1940-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780231161428 |
| ISBN |
9780231536189 (electronic bk.) |
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0231536186 (electronic bk.) |
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