Kenzaburō Ōe

Kenzaburō Ōe Criticism

• Ōe, Kenzaburo (Vol. 10)
  • Introduction
  • John Bester
  • Japanese Tradition in Kenzaburō Ōe's 'A Personal Matter'
  • Circles of Shame: 'Sheep' by Ōe Kenzaburō
  • Cornelia Holbert
  • Emiko Sakurai
• Ōe, Kenzaburo (Vol. 86)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Overviews
    • Ōe's Obsessive Metaphor, Mori, the Idiot Son: Toward the Imagination of Satire, Regeneration, and Grotesque Realism
    • Kenzaburō Ōe: The Early Years
    • Kenzaburo Ōe: A New World of Imagination
  • Award Announcements
    • Kenzaburo Oe of Japan Wins Nobel in Literature
    • Japan Asks Why a Prophet Bothers
  • Interviews
  • Reviews Of Recent Works
    • Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
    • Natsukashii toshi e no tegami
    • Chiryō-tō
  • Further Reading
• Ōe, Kenzaburō (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Occupied Japan: Tales of a Gigolo
    • A Narrative of Simultaneity: The Football Game of the First Year of Manen
    • The Lost Garden: Beginnings of a Mythic Alternative
    • Kenzaburo Ōe: An Imaginative Anarchist with a Heart
    • Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself: Nobel Lecture 1994
    • The Burning Tree: The Spatialized World of Kenzaburō Ōe
    • Review of The Pinch Runner Memorandum
    • Fiction of Shame
    • Strange Beauty amid Horror, Grief
    • Born of Anger
    • Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself: The Nobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures
    • Kenzaburo Oe: After the Nobel, a New Direction
    • Review of Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
    • A Mythical Topos: A Dialogue
    • Review of Hiroshima Notes
    • Review of Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself: The Nobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures
    • Like Apollinaire
    • Flannery Will Get You Nowhere
    • A Portrait of a Woman Who Transcends Culture
    • An Author in Search of a Story
    • Dynamite Dangling on a Thread
    • Review of An Echo of Heaven
    • Review of “Seventeen” and “J”: Two Novels
    • A Healing Family
    • Something Akin to Grace: The Journey of Kenzaburo Oe
    • Variations on a Simple Theme
    • The Flight of Kenzaburo Oe
    • The Seamless Universe of Oe Kenzaburo
    • An Attempt at Self-Discovery in the Mythic Universe of the Novel
    • Ōe Kenzaburō's Warera no jidai (Our Generation)
    • Structures of Power: Ōe Kenzaburō's ‘Shiiku’ (‘Prize Stock’)
    • ‘And a Little Child Shall Lead Them’: The Agency of the Innocent in an Early Story by Ōe Kenzaburō
    • Innocence and Experience
    • The Doubtful Wisdom of Eeyore
    • Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age
    • Foreign Voices
    • Faith Tangled Up in Reality
    • Review of Somersault
    • The Country's Cults
  • Further Reading
• Ōe, Kenzaburō (Short Story Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Circles of Shame: 'Sheep' by Ōe Kenzaburō
    • Abe Kōbō and Ōe Kenzaburö: The Search for Identity in Contemporary Japanese Literature
    • Kenzaburō Ōe with Sanroku Yoshida
    • The Device of Repetition: In Quest of Dialogic Narrative
    • Death and the Emperor: Mishima, Ōe, and the Politics of Betrayal
    • Günter Grass's The Tin Drum and Ōe Kenzaburô's My Tears: A Study in Convergence
  • Further Reading