Rumor and the Growth of Mystery : Giemon, Shikamaya, and Gendo Nakamura(<Special Issue>The Anatomy of the Uncanny: Something Pre-modern in Modernity)

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  • 怪異の生成とうわさ : 祇右衛門・飾磨屋・中村玄道(<特集>怪異をひらく-近代の時空へ)
  • 怪異の生成とうわさ--祗右衛門・飾磨屋・中村玄道
  • カイイ ノ セイセイ ト ウワサ ギエモン シカマヤ ナカムラゲンドウ

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While something mysterious gains reality in the course of repetition of rumor, the self-growing movement of rumor itself often turns out to be a mystery. Rumor about mystery can be easily changed into rumor as mystery. In other words, the act of communication potentially entails something uncanny and irrational. Here I will think of this problem with Natsuhiko Kyogoku's Ubume-no-natsu and "Kowai," Ogai Mori's "Hyaku-monogatari," Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "Giwaku," and some other stories. Those literary texts explicitly show such "mysterious" paradox inherent in rumor and also its function of fusing the modern and the pre-modern.

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