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A fictional commons : Natsume Sōseki and the properties of modern literature / Michael K. Bourdaghs.

"Michael K. Bourdaghs presents a radical reframing of the works of Natsume Sōseki--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."--

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Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Main Author: Bourdaghs, Michael K. (Author)
Other title:Natsume Sōseki and the properties of modern literature.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Natsume, Sōseki, > 1867-1916 > Criticism and interpretation.
Japanese fiction > Meiji period, 1868-1912 > History and criticism.
Property in literature.
Right of property > Japan > History.
Natsume, Sōseki, > 1867-1916.
Japanese fiction > Meiji period.
Right of property.
Japan.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Owning up to Sōseki
  • Fables of property : nameless cats, stray sheep, trickster badgers
  • House under a shadow : disowning the psychology of possessive individualism in the gate
  • Property and sociological knowledge : Sōseki and the gift of narrative
  • The tragedy of the market : women, younger brothers, and colonial subjects in Kokoro
  • Epilogue: Who owns Sōseki? Or, how not to belong to world literature.

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