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Author Bourdaghs, Michael K., author

Title A fictional commons : Natsume Sōseki and the properties of modern literature / Michael K. Bourdaghs
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Natsume, Sōseki, 1867-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Natsume, Sōseki, 1867-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation
Natsume, Sōseki, 1867-1916 fast
Subject Japanese fiction -- Meiji period, 1868-1912 -- History and criticism
Property in literature.
Right of property -- Japan -- History
LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese
Japanese fiction -- Meiji period
Property in literature
Right of property
Japan
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020050746
ISBN 1478021926
9781478021926
Other Titles Natsume Sōseki and the properties of modern literature