Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature

This book takes the unique approach of combining cognitive approaches with more established close-reading methods in analyzing a selection of Japanese novels.

Autorentext

Reiko Abe Auestad is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Inhalt

Introduction Part I: Sensibility and Genre 1. Natsume Sôseki's Narrative Experiments: From Shaseibun to Light and Dark 2. Shiga Naoya's Shishôsetsu: From 'Infatuation' to A Dark Night's Passing Part II: Affect and Emotion 3. Disorienting Affect in Natsume Sôseki's Kokoro 4. Ôe Kenzaburô's The Silent Cry Revisited Through Affect Theory 5. Speech Acts and Emotion in Kirino Natsuo's Grotesque 6. Cruel Optimism in Kawakami Mieko's Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka's Convenient Store Woman Part III: Historical Trauma and Representation 7. Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain and Imamura Shôhei's Film Adaptation 8. Intertextual Time Machine: Tsushima Yûko's Laughing Wolf and Ôe Kenzaburô's Children of Two Hundred Years 9. Ethics of Care in Ishimure Michiko's Villages of the Gods Conclusion