Ryunosuke, Akutagawa - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Allen, Louis. “Dark Estrangements.” Times Literary Supplement (28 April 1989): 466–67.
Includes translations of Akutagawa's short stories in an overview of modern Japanese fiction.
Lippit, Seiji M. “The Disintegrating Machinery of the Modern: Akutagawa Ryunosuke's Late Writings.” The Journal of Asian Studies 58, No. 1 (February 1999): 27–50.
Reevaluates Akutagawa's late fiction, as well as his ideas about modern fiction writing, to interpret his thoughts on purity in fiction.
Additional coverage of Akutagawa's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 117, 154; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 180; and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 16.
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