{"product_id":"a-fictional-commons-natsume-soseki-and-the-properties-of-modern-literature-paperback","title":"A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael K. Bourdaghs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In \u003ci\u003eA Fictional Commons\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916), widely celebrated as Japan's greatest modern novelist, exploited the contradictions and ambiguities that haunted this new system. Many of his works feature narratives about inheritance, thievery, and the struggle to obtain or preserve material wealth while also imagining alternative ways of owning and sharing. For Sōseki, literature was a means for thinking through--and beyond--private property. Bourdaghs puts Sōseki into dialogue with thinkers from his own era (including William James and Mizuno Rentarō, author of Japan's first copyright law) and discusses how his work anticipates such theorists as Karatani Kōjin and Franco Moretti. As Bourdaghs shows, Sōseki both appropriated and rejected concepts of ownership and subjectivity in ways that theorized literature as a critical response to the emergence of global capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael K. Bourdaghs is Robert S. Ingersoll Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eSound Alignments: Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press, and author of \u003ci\u003eSayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101542551687,"sku":"9781478014621","price":43.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/113088b68ee21040e59167c958f4872b.webp?v=1732395103","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/a-fictional-commons-natsume-soseki-and-the-properties-of-modern-literature-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}