The Failure of Narratives(<Special Issue>The Reception of Classics and the Formation of the Canon in Early Modern Times)

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  • 物語たちの失敗(<特集>近世における古典の受容と形成)
  • 物語たちの失敗
  • モノガタリ タチ ノ シッパイ

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In early modern times, the two kinds of editions - printed and hand-written - still coexisted. In this transitional period, narratives written in the Heian Period and pseudo-classical narratives of the Middle Ages hardly had a chance to survive because poetry was then thought to be the canonical style of literature. Thus while Ise-monogatari and Genji-monogatari, for example, were with no difficulty canonized as classics, those narratives were regarded as incomplete poetical works or totally ignored. The fate of narratives in early modern times was thus nothing but failure.

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