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In her groundbreaking study Sirens of the Western Shore, Indra Levy has demonstrated that the awareness, through translation, of Western literary language shaped the emergence of genbun itchi, the modern Japanese vernacular literary style
Translations like Karyū shunwa introduced a format of “great novelty” and made visible the “essence of the Western novel.”9 In other words, it was Karyū shunwa’s representation of “human emotions” and “social customs”—what Shōyō famously postulated as the novel’s main focus in his treatise Shōsetsu shinzui (The essence of the novel, 1885–86)—that could provide the model for his own attempt to reform Japanese fiction
Karyū shunwa and the New Meiji Novel As a translation, Karyū shunwa translingually attached to the form of the European Bildungsroman a variety of sometimes contradictory meanings that explain the novel’s success in Japan
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Translation, Human Emotion, and the Bildungsroman in Meiji Japan: Narrating Passion and Spiritual Love in the Novel Karyū shunwa
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