Licentious Fictions : : Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel / / Daniel Poch.
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. For many writers and critics, fiction's capacity to foster both licentiousness and di...
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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Introduction
- PART I. Ninjō and the Early- Modern Novel
- Chapter One. From Ninjō to the Ninjōbon: Toward the Licentious Novel
- Chapter Two. Questioning the Idealist Novel: Virtue and Desire in Nansō Satomi hakkenden
- PART II. The Age of Literary Reform
- Chapter Three. Translating Love in the Early- Meiji Novel: Ninjōbon and Yomihon in the Age of Enlightenment
- Chapter Four. Historicizing Literary Reform: Shōsetsu shinzui, Translation, and the Civilizational Politics of Ninjō
- Chapter Five. The Novel's Failure: Shōyō and the Aporia of Realism and Idealism
- PART III: LATE- MEIJI QUESTIONINGS
- Chapter Six Ninjō and the Late- Meiji Novel: Recontextualizing Sōseki's Literary Project
- Epilogue
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX