Lanterna Rally

Author: Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit

Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780674773196

This thorough and insightful study of the Japanese version of the I-novel provides a means of researching and interpreting the whole tradition of this genre, linking it to the forms of autobiographical fiction as well as to the cultural assumptions and ways of thinking of the classical period of Japanese history.