dc.contributor.author |
Marceau, Lawrence |
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dc.contributor.editor |
Zhang, Z |
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dc.contributor.editor |
Kōno, K |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2012-03-13T02:48:29Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2011-12 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
In Higashi Ajia sekai to Chūgoku bunka: Bungaku / shisō ni miru denpa to saisō (東アジア世界と中国文化:文学・思想にみる伝播と再創)[The World of East Asia and Chinese Culture: Propagation and Re-creation in Literature and Thought]. Editors: Zhang Z, Kōno K. First: 275-282. Bensei Shuppan, Tokyo Dec 2011 |
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dc.identifier.isbn |
978-4-585-29024-7 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/14153 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Late in life the writer and scholar Ueda Akinari (1734-1809) suffered the loss of two individuals near to him, as well as his eyesight. He recounts his suffering in a distinctive manner, by creating an exchange of letters between himself and his deceased wife, Koren, generated in the context of a dream encounter with his recently departed caregiver. This essay examines Akinari's "Yomotsu fumi (よもつ文、Letter from the Nether Realm)", and analyses the content of the work, in particular the use of the Daoist classic Liezu (c. 4th century CE). The essay argues against a reading of Akinari's text as a passive record of a dream, even a highly vivid one, and rather proposes an interpretation of the text as a carefully crafted literary construct, complete with references to Chinese philosophical texts in addition to references from the Japanese classics. Through this analysis we arrive at a new interpretation of the writer Akinari in his later years as an engaged, committed writer, and not the emotionally depleted broken individual as often depicted. |
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dc.publisher |
Bensei Shuppan |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Higashi Ajia sekai to Chūgoku bunka: Bungaku / shisō ni miru denpa to saisō (東アジア世界と中国文化:文学・思想にみる伝播と再創)[The World of East Asia and Chinese Culture: Propagation and Re-creation in Literature and Thought] |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.subject |
Ueda Akinari, Liezi, dreams, profligacy, clever scheming, death, Kojiki, loss |
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dc.title |
Yume no naka e -Akinari sakuhin to Resshi-(夢の中へ ー秋成作品と『列子』ー [Into the dream: Akinari's works and the Liezi]) |
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dc.type |
Book Item |
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pubs.begin-page |
275 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: Bensei Shuppan |
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pubs.author-url |
http://bensei.jp/index.php?main_page=product_book_info&cPath=2&products_id=100059 |
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pubs.edition |
First |
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pubs.end-page |
282 |
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pubs.place-of-publication |
Tokyo |
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pubs.publication-status |
Published |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.elements-id |
308660 |
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pubs.number |
11 (not numbered) |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2012-03-01 |
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