Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics in Japanese Fiction

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Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics in Japanese Fiction

Case Studies in Novel Reflexivity

Weinberger, Professor or Dr. Christopher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

02/2024

248

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Inglês

9798765105382

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Acknowledgments
Note on Translation
Introduction
- Case Studies
1. Critical Contexts: Modern Japanese Theories of the Novel
- Critical Contrasts: Ogai and Akutagawa
- Ethics, Aesthetics, and Self-Consciousness in Mid-Meiji Theories of the Novel
2. A Framed Narrator: Ironic Perspective in The Dancing Girl
- A Man of Letters
- Ogai's Dialectic Vision: Ethical Self-Overcoming in Critical and Novel Discourse
- Reflexive Narration in The Dancing Girl
3. Who is Ogai Gyoshi?: Authorial Desire and Ethical Self-Reflection in the Aughts
- The Self-Remaking of Ogai in the Aughts
- Who Is Ogai Gyoshi?: Fictions of Authorial Selfhood
- Vita Sexualis and the Ethics of Self-Reflection
- A Monologic Dialogism: Reflexive Critique as Ethical Posture
4. Triangulating an Ethos: Ethical Criticism, Novel Alterity, and Mori Ogai's "Stereoscopic Vision"
- The Culmination of an Ethics of Self-Consciousness
- The Wild Goose's Formal Ethics: Complicities of Novel Perspective
- A Colonizing Imagination: Suezo as Reader
- Ogai's Ethical Aesthetics
5. Akutagawa's Affective Ethics
- An Ethics beyond Understanding
- From the "If" of Reason to the "As If" of Stories: The Novel Ethics of "Rashomon"
- An Affective Ethics
6. The "Real" Tears of Fictional Readers: Akutagawa's "Green Onions"
- The Unreal Ethics of Mimetic Worlds
- Lyrical and Narrative Ethics
- "Real" Readers and Fictional Emotions
- Real Effects of Fictional Affect
7. A Novel Theory of Literary Affect
- An Art of Aporia
- Storied Failures: Critical Orthodoxy on Akutagawa's Late Fiction
- A Novel Theory of Literary Affect: Akutagawa's Late Writing on Shosetsu
8. Haunting Failures: The Transmission of Alterity in Akutagawa's Late Writing
- A Haunted Life within Literature
- A Fool's Life-within-Literature
- The Author as Icarus
- A-Sensei and the Transmission of Affect
- The Haunting Alterity of Akutagawa's Final Shosetsu
9. Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics: The Case of Murakami Haruki
- The Immanent Ethics of Murakami
- Murakami Criticism and the Fantasy of Realism
- Alterity and Oscillation in New Ethical Theories of the Novel
- Fractal Realism and the Ethics of Transpositioning
- Into Wonderland: Models of Reading
- Out of Wonderland: Modes of Reading
- The Fantasy of Realism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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comp lit; world literature; modern Japanese literature; Japanese scholarship; novel ethics; narratology; narrative theory; metafiction; contemporary fiction; literary tradition; rise of the novel; self-consciousness; moral and ethical philosophy; theorizing the novel; Murakami Haruki; Mikhail Bakhtin; Natsume Soseki; Akutagawa; aesthetics and form