The Development of Realism in the Fiction of Tsubouchi Shoyo.
Seattle. University of Washington Press. 1975. Stock ID #142473 Tsubouchi Shoyo was a Japanese novelist of the early Meiji period, when an awareness of the use of psychological realism in Western literature was capturing the attention of Japanese writers. Marleigh Ryan, through this evaluation of his fiction, demonstrates that he met this goal admirably in his novels, making a successful break with the romantic tradition that had moulded Japanese fiction for centuries. When referring to this item please quote stockid 142473.
133pp, bibliography, index, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason on front free endpaper, dustjacket lightly rubbed, a very good copy.
Price: $38.00 AU