In Search of Critical Space: The Path to Monogatari Criticism in The Mumyozoshi

Rohlich, Thomas H.

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“…See Terry Kawashima, Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001), p. 116. 9 Again, see Rohlich (1997), especially pp. 197-202.…”

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and Vice President of the English Literary Society of Japan, focuses on eighteenth-century English literature and culture. His interest also extends to comparative literary studies and the history of books and print culture. He has published many books and articles both in English and Japanese and translated Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (2004), James Cook's Voyages (2006-07), Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets (2009), and Samuel Richardson's

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“…Didn't it spring from the fervent worship of the Buddha?' 12 7 Marra (1984) Rohlich (1997), pp. 186-187, outlines this argument.…”

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“…The female narrator's opening lament about growing old also has a parallel in The Collection of Treasures. See Terry Kawashima, Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001), p. 116.9 Again, seeRohlich (1997), especially pp. 197-202.…”

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The Power of Fiction: The Nameless Book and the Birth of Literary Criticism in Japan

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The Nameless Book (Mumyōzōshi, ca. 1200) is frequently cited as the first work of prose criticism in the Japanese literary tradition, in part due to its author's sensitive treatment of several vernacular tales (monogatari) composed between the early tenth and late twelfth centuries. The author is generally assumed to be the poet known as Shunzei's Daughter (ca. 1171-1252), and the text can be seen as part of a larger movement on the part of her father's Mikohidari House to promote monogatari fiction as essential to poetic training at court. This paper explores possible models the author may have considered in constructing this work, the first of its kind. An analysis of the text's rhetorical strategies reveals several of its implied objectives, including the promotion of literary women, and the elevation of vernacular fiction itself to the same critical level as the more-esteemed genre of traditional waka poetry.

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In Search of Critical Space: The Path to Monogatari Criticism in The Mumyozoshi

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