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A Fictional Commons – Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature

Autor Michael K. Bourdaghs
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 sep 2021
Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916), widely celebrated as Japan's greatest modern novelist, exploited the contradictions and ambiguities that haunted this new system. Many of his works feature narratives about inheritance, thievery, and the struggle to obtain or preserve material wealth, while also imagining alternative ways of owning and sharing. For Sōseki, literature was a means for thinking through--and beyond--private property. Bourdaghs puts Sōseki into dialogue with thinkers from his own era (including William James and Mizuno Rentarō, author of Japan's first copyright law) and discusses how his work anticipates such theorists as Karatani Kōjin and Franco Moretti. As Bourdaghs shows, Sōseki both appropriated and rejected concepts of ownership and subjectivity in ways that theorized literature as a critical response to the emergence of global capitalism.
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ISBN-13: 9781478014621
ISBN-10: 1478014628
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Note on Usage ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Owning up to S¿seki 1
1. Fables of Property: Nameless Cats, Trickster Badgers, Stray Sheep 13
2. House under a Shadow: Disowning the Psychology of Possessive Individualism in The Gate 51
3. Property and Sociological Knowledge: S¿seki and the Gift of Narrative 91
4. The Tragedy of the Market:Younger Brothers, Women, and Colonial Subjects in Kokoro 121
Conclusion. Who Owns S¿seki? Or, How Not to Belong in World Literature 147
Notes 177
Bibliography 205
Index 219

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Michael K. Bourdaghs presents a radical reframing of the works of Natsume Soseki-widely considered to be Japan's greatest modern novelist-as critical and creative responses to the emergence of new forms of property ownership in nineteenth-century Japan.