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Inscribed Personalities: Thoughts on Author, Narrator, and Character as One Continuum in Premodern Japanese Literature

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2025
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Abstract As a form of art, literature is always concerned with human experience. The human agents inscribed in works of literature are commonly divided into several levels, the main categories being author, narrator (or lyrical subject), and character. As key concepts of literary studies, these are usually discussed based on modern definitions, and with good reason. This introduction to the special issue on “Author, Narrator, and Character in Japanese Literature to 1900,” however, takes a different approach and focuses on the historic

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  • Balmes, Sebastian

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79

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3

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515

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552

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Journal Article

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Keywords

Author, narrator, character, Heian-period literature, historical narratology, manuscript studies

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English

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2025-09-01

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2025-12-12

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0004-4717

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