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

Michael K. Bourdaghs

ISBN 10: 1478014628 / ISBN 13: 9781478014621

Edité par Duke University Press, 2021

A Fictional Commons | Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature | Michael K. Bourdaghs | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2021 | Duke University Press | EAN 9781478014621 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, 4831 GR BREDA, NIEDERLANDE, gpsr[at]mare-nostrum[dot]co[dot]uk | Anbieter: preigu. N° de réf. du vendeur 119089434

Synopsis :

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.

À propos de l'auteur: Michael K. Bourdaghs is Robert S. Ingersoll Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, coeditor of Sound Alignments: Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : A Fictional Commons | Natsume Soseki and the...
Éditeur : Duke University Press
Date d'édition : 2021
Reliure : Taschenbuch
Etat : Neu