Narrativity and its modes as culture-transcending analytical categories.
This article investigates the value of the concept of narrativity and its modes for the investigation of the literary forms of non-Western cultures such as Japan's. Following Ben-Amos (1969), a distinction is made between 'ethnic' concepts of genre, which correspond to the types of text recognized b...
| Published in: | Japan Forum Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 307 - 324 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2010
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