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Izumi Kyoka and language

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Izumi Kyoka's distinctive literary style reflects his emotional response to language. Kyoka has been widely regarded as both a stylist and a traditionalist from the modernist perspective, but this evaluation reflects his failure to conform to the conventions of realism that predominate in modern Japanese literature. Kyoka's style is opaque and plays on pictocentric associations, whereas literary realism seeks transparency and downplays the visual connotations of Japanese script. The stories 'One Day in Spring' ('Shunchu' and 'Shunchu gokoku') and 'Messenger from the Sea' ('Umi no shisha') exemplify Kyoka's approach to language.

Japanese fiction, Japanese language, Japanese characters

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The metropolitan uncanny in the works of Izumi Kyoka: a counter-discourse on Japan's modernization

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The ghost story of Izumi Kyoka is discussed as a counter-discourse on Tokyo's modernization, in relation to Yanagita Kunio's 'Tono monogatari' (1910). Topics include the double structure of Tokyo, streetcars and the ghost, the ghost story as a counter-discourse on modernity, language that does not communicate, the partiality of rationalism, the ghost story as a projection of sacred space, and the intersection of Kyoka and Yanagita.

Cities and towns, Urbanization, Tokyo, Japan, Ghost stories

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Reading the rhetoric of seduction in 'Izumi Shikibu nikki.'

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A sophisticated rhetoric of seduction is deployed in the Heian Japanese text 'Izumi Shikibu nikki' (ca. 1007?). Seduction is involved in the writer's agenda for her readers, as well as between the aristocratic female protagonist Onna, understood to be Izumi Shikibu herself, and her lover. The complex text uses skillful rhetoric and methods of seduction to pursue a variety of strategies and address different needs.

Analysis, Seduction, Seduction in literature, Izumi Shikibu nikki (Book)

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