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Fictions of the Epistle: Letters and Gender in Modern Japanese Literature and Discourse 1900-1916
Fictions of the Epistle: Letters and Gender in Modern Japanese Literature and Discourse 1900-1916
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211153100
- ISBN
- 9798346395416
- DDC
- 149.97
- 서명/저자
- Fictions of the Epistle: Letters and Gender in Modern Japanese Literature and Discourse 1900-1916
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Stanford University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 172 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Levy, Indra;Reichert, James.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation is about letters, literature, and gender in modern Japanese literature from 1900 to 1916. Across three chapters, I examine the development of a Japanese discourse on letters in the early 20thcentury-what I term Japan's epistolary discourse-and I argue that writers working in the wake of this discourse responded to it in and through their literary fictions. Whether by penning epistolary novels or embedding letters directly within their literary works, fiction writers consciously and conspicuously adopted, adapted, interrogated, contested, and rewrote this discourse to varying effect. Significantly, throughout these two interrelated and intertwined domains of discourse and fiction, letters are marshalled forth to negotiate rapidly shifting conceptions of gender during the Meiji (1868-1912) and early Taisho (1912-1928) eras. If, in both Japanese and Western contexts, letters are customarily considered the domain of women, and thus linked to privacy, interiority, and sentimentality, this dissertation argues that other fictions of the Japanese letter are and were available.Chapter One, "The Discourse on Letters," examines the birth and efflorescence of Japan's epistolary discourse across three sections. I first examine articles that construct the letter as a direct conduit to its writer's interiority, arguing that in contrast to existing scholarship, writers only infrequently considered genbun'itchi-that supposed merging of written and spoken language-as the only or best linguistic style for expressing that interiority. Next, I examine articles that sought to uncover a history of Japanese letters, suggesting that this discovery stemmed from Japan's desire to achieve cultural parity with its Western counterparts. I also show how this history is gendered, with men posited as the subject of this history and women as its object. In the final section, I construct what might be termed a phenomenology of the post. Rather than the letters themselves, this section is attendant to sensations engendered by the larger postal system, including those of speed, simultaneity, and contingency. While admittedly diffuse in focus, I would argue that, however minimally, we might view gender as a larger undercurrent structuring this chapter. As I noted above, these articles are written almost exclusively by men, and their thematic choices can be read as conversing with, if not bolstering, discourses alsoconstructed by (and perhaps for) men, including those on literary interiority and civilization and enlightenment.My second chapter, "Letters and the I-novel" examines the letters in three canonical I-novels: 田山花袋 Tayama Katai's Futon 蒲団 (1907), Morita Sohei's 森田草 平(1881 -1949) Baien 煤煙 (Black Smoke; 1909-1910) and Chikamatsu Shuko's 近松秋 江 (1876-1944) Wakaretaru tsuma ni okuru tegami 別れたる妻に送る手紙 (Letter to the Wife Who Left Me;1910). Contrary to existing scholarship that has posited the tight imbrication of Naturalist literature and the letter, I argue that both within I-novel discourse and the texts of I-novels themselves, letters are conspicuously distinguished from the I-novel. Importantly, this differentiation also effects a conspicuous gendering of both the I-novel and the letters embedded there: while I-novel discourse is surfeit with the hallmarks of masculine logic, letters, by contrast, suffer the stereotypes of the feminine at every turn. My readings of the letters in the above I-novels overtly challenge this view, but it does so in a manner that attempts to avoid simply subverting existing scholarship and revealing the "concealed" masculinity of letters.
- 일반주제명
- Critical theory
- 일반주제명
- Writing
- 일반주제명
- Verbal communication
- 일반주제명
- Gender
- 일반주제명
- Privacy
- 일반주제명
- Interiority
- 일반주제명
- 20th century
- 일반주제명
- Periodicals
- 일반주제명
- Japanese literature
- 일반주제명
- Genre
- 일반주제명
- Social history
- 일반주제명
- Novels
- 일반주제명
- Letters
- 일반주제명
- Fiction
- 일반주제명
- Taxonomy
- 일반주제명
- Femininity
- 일반주제명
- Women
- 일반주제명
- Education
- 일반주제명
- Communication
- 일반주제명
- History
- 기타저자
- Stanford University.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-05B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■650 4▼aFemininity
■650 4▼aWomen
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