Description: This book deepens our understanding of the dynamics between nature and culture in Japanese thought and feeling. The author provides a detailed study of Shiga Naoya's nature-inspired literature as an example of Japanese people's engagement with nature.
Review Quotes:
"Guo's study will remain a crucial contribution to such reception as exists by its focus on Shiga's deep love of nature." --Monumenta Nipponica
"Nanyang Guo, thoroughly familiar with Shiga Naoya's writings, offers a new view of this very 'Japanese' writer. She goes beyond the 'I-novel' paradigm by taking us on a journey through his understanding of natural phenomena as a key to the psychology of living beings and situations. Guo aptly delineates Shiga's "subjective realism" as a key to his art." --Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Freie Universität Berlin