Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature : From Natsume Sôseki to Ishimure Michiko.
- 1st ed.
- Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. 2025.
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- Routledge Research on Asian Literature Series .
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Interpretative Framework: Reading as Continuous With Life -- Methodological and Theoretical Framework: Affect Theory, Cognitive Science, and Butlerian Ethics -- Overview of the Book and Chapters in Context: From Natsume Sôseki and Shiga Naoya to Tsushima Yûko and Ishimure Michiko -- Part I Genre: Sensibility, Language, and Genre -- Part II Affect: From the Affect That Unhinges to the Affective Apprehension of the Present -- Part III Trauma: Representing a Real-Life Trauma in Fiction -- Notes -- References -- Part I Sensibility and Genre -- 1 Natsume Sôseki's Narrative Experiments: From Shaseibun to Light and Dark -- Introduction: Sensibility Or Idioculture -- Jiko-hon'i: On One's Own Terms -- The Evolving Cognitive Literary Landscape in the Meiji Period -- The Use of Shaseibun in Narratives -- Close Reading: Light and Dark (1916) -- 'Odd' Narrative Structure -- Love Marriage -- Split Female Roles: 'Osan' and 'Koharu' -- The Aesthetics of the Absolute Present -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 Shiga Naoya's Shishôsetsu: From 'Infatuation' to A Dark Night's Passing -- Introduction: The Taishô Kyôyô Shugi (Taishô Culture of Self-Cultivation) and the New Literati Paradigm -- Shiga Naoya's Auto-Therapeutic Project: From 'Chijô' ('Infatuation' 1926) to An'ya Kôro (A Dark Night's Passing 1937) -- 'Infatuation' (1926): Honesty and Negative Affects -- An'ya Kôro (A Dark Night's Passing, 1922-1937) -- Introduction: What Is This Shishôsetsu All About? -- From Mother's Secret to Wife's Indiscretion -- Shiga Hero's Evolving Sexuality and Ethics -- Shiga Versus Sôseki -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Affect and Emotion -- 3 Disorienting Affect in Natsume Sôseki's Kokoro. Introduction: Reading Against 'Personalism' -- Core Affect and Social Conditioning -- Phenomenology of Emotions in Kokoro (1914) -- Ugly Feelings -- Paranoia and Envy -- The Structure of the House and the Structure of Feelings -- Affective Pre-Emptive Strike -- Theory of 'Delay': Was There Foul Play On the Part of Sensei? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Ôe Kenzaburô's The Silent Cry Revisited Through Affect Theory -- Introduction: Ôe and the Emperor -- Affect, Cognition, and History -- Close Reading the Affective Dynamics in The Silent Cry (1967) -- Ideo-Affective Investment in Ideology -- Differential Repetitions of Affective Scenes -- Affect On Autopilot -- The Showdown Between the Brothers in the Family's Storehouse: Terms of Ethicality Turned On Their Head -- Conclusion: Affect and History -- Notes -- References -- 5 Speech Acts and Emotion in Kirino Natsuo's Grotesque -- Introduction: Crime Novel as Social Critique -- Close Reading Grotesque (2003) -- Speech Act -- Affect-driven Dialogism and Epistolarity -- 'Schemes of Recognition' and the Female Narrator Known as Yuriko's Sister -- Meeting Kazue and Mitsuru at Q School -- Yuriko's Sister's Sexuality -- Kazue's Downfall -- Yuriko's Downfall -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Cruel Optimism in Kawakami Mieko's Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka's Convenience Store Woman -- Introduction: Affectively Apprehending the Present -- Close-Reading Breasts and Eggs (2008) -- Presence Through Intertextuality: Higuchi Ichiyô (1872-1896) -- Playful Words and Ludic Gestures -- The Climactic Scene in the Kitchen -- Close-Reading Convenience Store Woman (2016) -- 'Perceptual Method' and Defamiliarisation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part III Historical Trauma and Representation -- 7 Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain and Imamura Shôhei's Film Adaptation. Introduction: Ethics of Memory in Post-War Japan -- Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain Versus Imamura Shôhei's Film: Axes of Comparison -- The Change in Time: 1966 and 1989 -- Ibuse Masuji's Concerns in Black Rain (1966) -- Imamura Shôhei's Black Rain (1989) -- Adaptation From Novel to Film -- Intertextual Resonance: 'Lieutenant Look East' (1950) -- The Realm of Perception in the Medium of Film -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 Intertextual Time Machine: Tsushima Yûko's Laughing Wolf and Ôe Kenzaburô's Children of Two Hundred Years -- Introduction: The Japanese National Identity Debate in the 1990s -- Tsushima Yûko's Intertextual Time Machine -- On Grieving (Kanashimi Ni Tsuite, 2017) -- Laughing Wolf (2000) -- Ôe Kenzaburô's Intertextual Time Machine in Children of Two Hundred Years -- The Foundation Narratives in M/T and Contemporaneity -- Secrets From the Past in Children -- Mediating Between 'Thick Relations' and 'Thin Relations' -- Feminist Project in Ôe's 'Late Works' -- Epilogue to Chapters 7 and 8 -- Notes -- References -- 9 Ethics of Care in Ishimure Michiko's Villages of the Gods -- Introduction: Minamata, the Sea of Sorrow -- From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern and Care -- Close-Reading Villages of the Gods (2004) -- A Dystopic Vision of the Interconnectedness of Things -- Matters of Concern and Care -- Buddhist-Inspired 'Animism', Compassion, and Care in Ishimure -- The Forces of Life Pulsating in the World of the Human and the Non-Human -- Shinran and Pure Land Buddhism: A Diamond in the Mud of Bonnô -- Modae Gami Mode of Writing: Between Kikigaki and Shishôsetsu -- 'Animism' That Encompasses Decomposition in a Food Web and Cycle of Life -- Towards Ecocritical Thinking -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion -- Affects, Emotions, and the Fundamental Sociality of Embodied Life. Literature: Accrued Historicity Made Visible in Slow Motion -- Epilogue: Revisiting 'Five Cups of Sake' -- Notes -- References -- Index.
This book takes the unique approach of combining cognitive approaches with more established close-reading methods in analyzing a selection of Japanese novels.