Credo Quia Absurdum: Tenkō and the Prisonhouse of Language

Studies of the development of structuralist and poststructuralist thought in the West often emphasize the role of the avant-garde text in challenging realist literature’s ability to represent a “vraisemblable,” or accepted natural view of the world. Rosalind Coward and John Ellis, in introducing the...

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Zusammenfassung:	Studies of the development of structuralist and poststructuralist thought in the West often emphasize the role of the avant-garde text in challenging realist literature’s ability to represent a “vraisemblable,” or accepted natural view of the world. Rosalind Coward and John Ellis, in introducing their studyLanguage and Materialism, for example, observe that it was “in analyzing texts by Mallarmé, Lautréamont, Joyce,” and others “that semiology’s assumptions about the speaking subject (parole) and its relation to language (langue) became increasingly untenable.”¹ In Japan, too, the short-lived claim to preeminence of Naturalist-style realism had been challenged, by the early 1920s, by the