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Biography of Naoya Shiga
10,165 words, approx. 34 pages
 By 1935 Shiga Naoya had been extolled as the "God of Fiction," and his preeminence as the most revered of modern Japanese writers was established by the late 1930s. The body of Shiga's work probably equals that number of works annually published by a...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Naoya Shiga Information
649 words, approx. 2 pages
 Naoya Shiga (志賀 直哉, Shiga Naoya?, 20 February 1883 – 21 October, 1971) was a novelist and short story writer active in Taisho and Showa period...


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 Journal of Asian and African Studies
An Artless Art: The Zen Aesthetic of Shiga Naoya.(Review)
05/01/1999: 778 words, approx. 3 pages Roy Starrs (Surrey, GB: Curzon Press, 1998), 261 pp. Cloth [pounds]40.00. This book, which provides an excellent entrance into the life and works of modern Japanese writer Shiga Naoya (1883-1971), is divided into two parts. The first part consists of four chapters...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Francis Mathy
11,849 words, approx. 40 pages
 In the following excepts from his book-length study of Shiga, Mathy analyzes eight of the author's most famous short stories and summarizes how his work differs from Western standards of great literature.
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Critical Essay by Edward Fowler
7,686 words, approx. 26 pages
 In the following excerpt, Fowler surveys Shiga's novellas, particularly Wakai. He then goes on to contend that Shiga "depopulates " his fiction, showing his main characters in relative isolation in order to better explore the nature of personal experience.
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Critical Essay by Makoto Ueda
5,480 words, approx. 18 pages
 In the excerpt below, Makoto examines Shiga's literary aesthetic through a survey of his fictional and autobiographical writings.


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