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Reading Against Culture : Ideology and Narrative in the Japanese Novel / David Pollack.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501737527
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- A Paradigm -- Part I. Constructions of the Self -- Chapter 1. The Idea of the Individual Self -- Chapter 2. The Psychopathic Self: Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro -- Chapter 3. The Deviant Self: Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s Some Prefer Nettles -- Part II. Ideology and Its Articulation -- Chapter 4. Ideology, Aesthetics, Science -- Chapter 5. The Ideology of Aesthetics: Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes and Snow Country -- Chapter 6. The Ideology of Science: Kobo Abe’s Woman in the Dunes -- Part III. Narrative and the Novel -- Chapter 7. A Narrative of Their Own: Japan and the Novel -- Chapter 8. The Critique of Everything: Yukio Mishima’s The Sea of Fertility -- Part IV. The Problem of Culture -- Chapter 9. Culture: Reading in the Hall of Mirrors -- Chapter 10. The Archaeology of Difference: Kenzaburo Oe’s The Silent Cry -- Chapter 11. The Escape from Culture: Takeshi Kaiko’s Into a Black Sun -- Conclusion Narrative and Ideology: Toward a Practice of Reading -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Reading against Culture starts from the problem that a concept of culture is both destructive and necessary. Culture constitutes the environment within which self develops and interacts with other; as a closed environment of self-identity, however, culture inevitably implies alterity and exclusion. David Pollack proposes that only by reading against culture—both by understanding how our involvement in it conditions our writing and reading, and by understanding how its inclusion of self entails the exclusion of other—can we begin to resist the hegemonic impulse inherent in reading across cultures.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- A Paradigm -- Part I. Constructions of the Self -- Chapter 1. The Idea of the Individual Self -- Chapter 2. The Psychopathic Self: Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro -- Chapter 3. The Deviant Self: Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s Some Prefer Nettles -- Part II. Ideology and Its Articulation -- Chapter 4. Ideology, Aesthetics, Science -- Chapter 5. The Ideology of Aesthetics: Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes and Snow Country -- Chapter 6. The Ideology of Science: Kobo Abe’s Woman in the Dunes -- Part III. Narrative and the Novel -- Chapter 7. A Narrative of Their Own: Japan and the Novel -- Chapter 8. The Critique of Everything: Yukio Mishima’s The Sea of Fertility -- Part IV. The Problem of Culture -- Chapter 9. Culture: Reading in the Hall of Mirrors -- Chapter 10. The Archaeology of Difference: Kenzaburo Oe’s The Silent Cry -- Chapter 11. The Escape from Culture: Takeshi Kaiko’s Into a Black Sun -- Conclusion Narrative and Ideology: Toward a Practice of Reading -- Bibliography -- Index

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Reading against Culture starts from the problem that a concept of culture is both destructive and necessary. Culture constitutes the environment within which self develops and interacts with other; as a closed environment of self-identity, however, culture inevitably implies alterity and exclusion. David Pollack proposes that only by reading against culture—both by understanding how our involvement in it conditions our writing and reading, and by understanding how its inclusion of self entails the exclusion of other—can we begin to resist the hegemonic impulse inherent in reading across cultures.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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