Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics in Japanese Fiction: Case Studies in Novel Reflexivity - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765105382UPC:9798765105382Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Asian, Modern, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:Japanese, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SCCRT1Z132
Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics in Japanese Fiction: Case Studies in Novel Reflexivity
Can novels contribute to the ethical lives of readers? What responsibilities might they bear in representing others? Are we ethically accountable for how we read fiction?
This study takes up modern Japanese fiction and metafiction, subjects overwhelmingly ignored by Anglophone scholarship on novel ethics, to discover pioneering answers to these and other questions. Each chapter offers new...Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765105382UPC:9798765105382Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Asian, Modern, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:Japanese, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SCCRT1Z132
Christopher Weinberger is Associate Professor of Comparative World Literature and founder and Program Coordinator of Video Game Studies at San Francisco State University, USA. He teaches narrative and literary theories in Japanese and Anglophone traditions and has contributed to Novel and Fault Lines of Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2018), among other publications. He is currently writing for the...
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