A Critical Reading of a Literary Essay on Kokoro by Soseki Natsume

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  • 模擬演習　文学評論を批判的に読む
  • モギ エンシュウ ブンガク ヒョウロン オ ヒハンテキ ニ ヨム

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This paper deals with recent views of Kokoro(1914), a novel by Soseki NATSUME, which ProfessorChiaki ISHIHARA proposes in his critical essay titled 'Kokoro: Sensei who failed to be an adult,(2005) which was designed for senior high school students. The paper aims to discuss how valid hisviews are through close examination of the text. The first part treats the opinions that he offersrelating to the protagonist and the latter part does the ones concerning his disciple and his wife inthe form of a seminar where a teacher explains his interpretations to his students. Although Prof.ISHIHARA,s theories are unique and show a certain type of sensibility in modern times, he oftenforms his ideas on the basis of details of the novel without putting the words he focuses on in thecontext around them. On the other hand, this paper sees it as a premise that reasonableunderstanding of any detail comes from the recognition of the context. Since most of his ideasdiffer distinctly from traditional interpretations, the paper tries to subject them to a criticalexamination, by which it also aims at showing the students how to look at academic opinions with acritical mind.

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