Licentious Fictions Poch Daniel
Licentious Fictions Poch Daniel Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjō--literally "human emotion," but often used in reference to…
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Licentious Fictions Poch Daniel
Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjō--literally "human emotion," but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. Simultaneously capable of inspiring exemplary behavior and a dangerous force transgressing social norms, ninjō became a focal point for debates about the role of the novel and a key motor propelling narrative plots.In Licentious Fictions, Daniel Poch investigates the significance of ninjō in defining the literary modernity of nineteenth-century Japan. For many writers and critics, fiction's capacity to foster both licentiousness and didactic values stood out as a crucial source of ambivalence.
He explores how cultural anxieties about the power of literature in mediating emotions and desire shaped Japanese narrative from the late Edo through