Mazes of Memories, Scents of the Past. Natsume Sōseki’s Expression of His Experience of London in Eijitsu shōhin (Spring Miscellany, 1909)

  • Katarzyna Sonnenberg Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Keywords: Natsume Sōseki, Bungakuron, Eijitsu shōhin (Spring Miscellany), shasei sketches, London

Abstract

The article focuses on the expression of Natsume Sōseki’s experience of London in a number of short-narratives selected from Eijitsu shōhin (Spring Miscellany, 1909). The narratives are analysed in the context of Sōseki’s interest in sketches from nature (shasei) and of his theory of emotions in literary expression as presented in his Bungakuron (Theory of Literature, 1907).

Author Biography

Katarzyna Sonnenberg, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Works as an assistant professor at the Department of Japanology and Sinology, Jagiellonian University, Kra- kow. She is an author of a number of articles and monographs on the subject of narrative strategies in early-modern and modern Japanese li- terature and a translator of Japanese literature into Polish.

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2017-12-31
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Sonnenberg, K. 2017. Mazes of Memories, Scents of the Past. Natsume Sōseki’s Expression of His Experience of London in Eijitsu shōhin (Spring Miscellany, 1909). Perspectives on Culture. 19, 4 (Dec. 2017), 19-36.
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