Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings

Natsume Soseki, Edited by Michael Bourdaghs, Atsuko Ueda, and Joseph A. Murphy

Paper, 304 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14657-9
$27.50 / £19.00

January, 2009
Cloth, 304 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14656-2
$50.00 / £34.50

"Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings is exemplary in its coverage and organization, and the translations and introductions achieve precisely what the editors hope to accomplish: allowing readers to grasp the significance of Natsume Soseki's criticism in its historical context and as a broader contribution to the human sciences." — Thomas Lamarre, McGill University

"A work of elegant and faithful translations of some of Natsume Soseki's major critical writings, together with an introduction of considerable erudition. Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings will go a long way toward correcting the excessively narrow view of Soseki long held by scholars of Japanese studies." — Richard Calichman, City College of New York

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Weatherhead Books on Asia

About the Author

Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era, known for his books Kokoro, Botchan, and I Am a Cat.

Michael K. Bourdaghs is associate professor of modern Japanese literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism and the translation editor of Kamei Hideo's Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature.

Atsuko Ueda is assistant professor of East Asian studies at Princeton University and the author, most recently, of Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment.

Joseph A. Murphy is associate professor of languages, literatures, and cultures at the University of Florida and author of The Metaphorical Circuit: Negotiating the Gap Between Literature and Science in Twentieth-Century Japan. His recent work concerns the cognitive basis of narrative comprehension and includes an article in the volume Cognition and Literature, forthcoming from Yale University Press.

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