Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Natsume Sōseki and the Ten-Year Project

Excerpts from Theory of Literature

Classification of Literary Substance

Quantitative Change in Literary Substance

The Particular Character of Literary Substance

Interrelations Between Literary Substances

Other Writings on Literary Theory, 1907

“Statement on Joining the Asahi”

“Philosophical Foundations of the Literary Arts”

“Preface” to Literary Criticism

“The Merits and Flaws of -isms”

“My Individualism”