A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature Bourdaghs Michael K.
A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature Bourdaghs Michael K. Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. Bourdaghs explores how the…
Specifikacia A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature Bourdaghs Michael K.
A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature Bourdaghs Michael K.
Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916), widely celebrated as Japan's greatest modern novelist, exploited the contradictions and ambiguities that haunted this new system. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K.
For Sōseki, literature was a means for thinking through--and beyond--private property. Many of his works feature narratives about inheritance, thievery, and the struggle to obtain or preserve material wealth, while also imagining alternative ways of owning and sharing. Bourdaghs puts Sōseki into dialogue with thinkers from his own era (including William James and Mizuno Rentarō, author of Japan's first copyright law) and discusses how his work anticipates such theorists as Karatani Kōjin and Franco Moretti.
As Bourdaghs shows,