Poch Licentious Fictions

Ninjo and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-55046-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjo—literally “human emotion,” but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. In Licentious Fictions, Daniel Poch investigates the significance of ninjo in defining the literary modernity of nineteenth-century Japan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poch, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Ninjo and the Early-Modern Novel
1. From Ninjo to the Ninjobon: Toward the Licentious Novel
2. Questioning the Idealist Novel: Virtue and Desire in Nanso Satomi hakkenden
Part II: The Age of Literary Reform
3. Translating Love in the Early-Meiji Novel: Ninjobon and Yomihon in the Age of Enlightenment
4. Historicizing Literary Reform: Shosetsu shinzui, Translation, and the Civilizational Politics of Ninjo
5. The Novel’s Failure: Shoyo and the Aporia of Realism and Idealism
Part III: Late-Meiji Questionings
6. Ninjo and the Late-Meiji Novel: Recontextualizing Soseki’s Literary Project
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Poch is assistant professor of Japanese literature in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong.