Paragons of the Ordinary: The Biographical Literature of Mori Ogai

by Marvin Marcus

Paragons of the Ordinary is about a quite extraordinary literary achievement: a series of biographies of obscure scholar-literati written by Mori Ogai, one of Japan's most prominent writers and intellectuals. Deeply concerned about the cultural toll taken by Japan's headlong modernization early in this century, Ogai employed the format of newspaper serialization in presenting meticulously researched accounts of individuals who had come to embody exemplary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824814509
• ISBN13: 9780824814502
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.