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Ueda Akinari.
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In the following essay, Araki offers an overview of criticism of Akinari's tales and an analysis of the structural techniques the author employed in Tales of Moonlight and Rain.
1 a Survey of C...
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In the following essay, Zolbrod explains the complex relationship between Tales of Moonlight and Rain and the Chinese and Japanese sources of the collection.
Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Ugetsu monoga...
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In the following essay, Young discusses Akinari as a writer who remained outside contemporary literary circles, thus minimizing the influence of other writers on his work.
Ueda Akinari (sometimes) has...
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In the following excerpt, Zolbrod provides an overview of Akinari's Tales of Moonlight and Rain, discussing the work's style, influences, and historical background.
Historical Background...
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In the following excerpt, Keene praises Akinari's talent as a fiction writer and maintains that his stories are still widely read today, unlike the works of most of his contemporaries.
During t...
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In the following excerpt, Young provides an overview of the composition and contents of Tales of the Spring Rain, while also discussing Akinari's literary reputation during and after his life.
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In the following essay, Washburn contends that in Tales of Moonlight and Rain Akinari achieves a delicate balance between artistic considerations and elements of the supernatural.
The collection of ta...
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In the following excerpt, Fessler explains Akinari's philosophy on the nature of deities.
Ueda Akinari, renowned for his fiction writing, was also a serious scholar of kokugaku, or National Lea...
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In the following excerpt, Frank discusses Akinari's work as part of the Western Gothic tradition.
The writings of the eighteenth-century Japanese Gothicist Ueda Akinari confirm the presence of ...
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Critical Essay by James T. Araki
