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Assessing the reception and transformation of a genre amounts to one of the most daunting tasks confronting the literary comparatist. This is particularly true when the process involves not one writer but a community of writers appropriating a specific form of writing and, through an act of literary (re)creation, reconceiving it to fit the exigencies of a new literary milieu. Such a case can be made for one of China’s foremost modern literary coteries, the Creation Society, in regard to its adaptation of the Japanese shishôsetsu form1 The Creation Society’s innovation was to see in the shishôsetsu form the potential for social critique and to transform this self-referential form into a tool of cultural and social reform
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Japanese Literature Fourth Period Chinese Writer Culture Movement Modern Chinese LiteraryPreview
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