A fictional commons : Natsume Sōseki and the properties of modern literature
Michael K. Bourdaghs
Bok · Engelsk · 2021
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| Omfang | 223 sider
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: Owning up to Sōseki -- Fables of property : nameless cats, stray sheep, trickster badgers -- House under a shadow : disowning the psychology of possessive individualism in the gate -- Property and sociological knowledge : Sōseki and the gift of narrative -- The tragedy of the market : women, younger brothers, and colonial subjects in Kokoro -- Epilogue: Who owns Sōseki? Or, how not to belong to world literature. - "In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores the fiction and literary theory of Natsume Sōseki as a critical and creative response to new forms of property ownership in Japan. Reading Sōseki in relation to both theorists from his era (for example, William James) and from today (for example, Kojin Karatani), Bourdaghs explores how Sōseki's stories exploited the contradictions and ambiguities that haunted the new system, as well as imagined alternative modes of owning and sharing. This includes a consideration of Sōseki's attempt to construct a universally valid, scientifically grounded theory of literature. Taking up a number of Sōseki's most famous works as well as some of his less-read writings, the book explores how his literature disrupts the emerging common sense of ownership through his depictions of animals, colonial subjects, women, and other figures who were treated as incompetent for ownership under the new system. It also explores how he both appropriated and rejected the notions of ownership that emerged under the modern disciplines of psychology and sociology, and how he proposed literature as an alternative mode for knowing and being in the world"--
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| ISBN | 9781478014621
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