Alienation, trains and the journey of life in four modern Japanese novels

This thesis examines the theme of alienation along with the train motif in the life journeys of the protagonists in four modern Japanese novels. Each chapter is devoted to an individual novel and explores its hero's feelings of socio-psychological estrangement on personal and interpersonal leve...

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Main Author: Price, Ann Mereryd
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26903