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A Fictional Commons Natsume Soseki And The Properties Of Modern Literature Michael K Bourdaghs

SKU: BELL-37604040

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Publisher: Duke University Press Books

File Extension: PDF

File size: 1.91 MB

Pages: 240

Author: Michael K. Bourdaghs

ISBN: 9781478013693, 1478013699

Language: English

Year: 2021

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A Fictional Commons Natsume Soseki And The Properties Of Modern Literature Michael K Bourdaghs by Michael K. Bourdaghs 9781478013693, 1478013699 instant download after payment.

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.