Reading Kyuketsuaidoka : Kakinomoto-no-Hitomaro and Hiroshi Sakaguchi(<Special Issue>Collection of Papers from the 49th Japanese Literature Association Convention [Literature Section])

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  • 「泣血哀慟歌」を読む : 人麻呂と坂口弘(<特集>日本文学協会第49回大会報告(文学の部))
  • 「泣血哀慟歌」を読む--人麻呂と坂口弘〔含 討論〕
  • キュウケツ アイドウカ オ ヨム ヒトマロ ト サカグチ ヒロシ ガン トウロン

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Both Yamato Takeru's Omihauriuta and Kakinomoto-no-Hitomaro's Kyuketsuaidoka are songs for the dead, the former a requiem and the latter a dirge. But they are quite different in their textual functions. In Omihauriuta the sequences are organized so as to represent the distance between the living and the dead, whereas in Kyuketsuaidoka they are arranged for the effect of invoking the dead. This difference seems to reflect an epistemological shift at the textual level, which shows the way language loses the function of what Freud defines as "Trauerarbeit" (work of mourning), the mental process of detaching the mourner from his/her bereaved object of affection in the act of mourning.

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