Libraries, Reading Records, and Literary Imagination

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  • 図書館と読書の履歴をめぐる文学的想像力
  • トショカン ト ドクショ ノ リレキ オ メグル ブンガクテキ ソウゾウリョク

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<p>Literary imagination is created by interactions between our psyche, personality, and reading habit. It is closely related to the social functions of libraries to define our reading predilections with no small influence on the formation of our personality. Therefore libraries are always in danger of being abused as an ideological apparatus for surveillance and discipline through our reading records and habits. This article will explicate both the limitations and possibilities of libraries in cultivating our literary imagination.</p>

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  • Japanese Literature

    Japanese Literature 65 (11), 51-61, 2016-11-10

    Japanese Literature Association

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