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Spirit matters : the transcendent in modern Japanese literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gabriel, Philip, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Japanese literature > Shōwa period, 1926-1989 > History and criticism.
Japanese literature > Heisei period, 1989- > History and criticism.
Religion and literature.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • ch. 1. The frozen soul: sin and forgiveness in Miura Ayako's Freezing point
  • ch. 2. The Seed must fall: two tales of self-sacrifice
  • ch. 3. Aum, underground, and Murakami Haruki's Other side
  • ch. 4. Literature of the soul: Ōe Kenzaburō's Somersault.