Genre-Crossing and Changes in Narrative Perspectives in Travel Literature at the End of the 19^<th> Century : A Study of Tayama Katai's Nikko

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  • 明治三十年前後の紀行文におけるジャンルの越境と人称の交替 : 田山花袋『日光』を中心に
  • メイジ サンジュウネン ゼンゴ ノ キコウブン ニ オケル ジャンル ノ エッキョウ ト ニンショウ ノ コウタイ : デンサン カブクロ 『 ニッコウ 』 オ チュウシン ニ

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Tayama Katai's Nikko (Nikko, 1899) has some textual characteristics that shed light on the advent of the Realist Novel around the turn of the century. This work straddles two genres-travel literature and fiction-and a third-person narrative is occasionally interjected into the first-person narrative. This type of blending of narrative styles in one work was in fact common across a wide range of contemporary works, including what were conceived of in Japan as disparate genres such as the descriptive essay and belles-lettres. In Nikko, however, Katai is quite original in the way he took advantage of the changes in location in the progress of the journey in order to introduce a third-person narrative that goes astray from the norms of a travelogue. He was also creative in the way he used quotations from Western literary works to prompt a switch into third-person narrative. These innovative techniques set Nikko apart from and above numerous other works of travel literature of the same era.

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