The Readers in/of Junichiro Tanizaki's Kagi(<Special Issue>The Transforming of Reading and Reader Theories)

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  • 谷崎潤一郎「鍵」における"読者"の様相(<特集>変容する読書論・読者論)
  • 谷崎潤一郎「鍵」における"読者"の様相
  • タニザキジュンイチロウ カギ ニ オケル ドクシャ ノ ヨウソウ

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The plot of Junichiro Tanizaki's Kagi is centered on the acts of "reading" not only because both the husband and his wife in the story fashion themselves by reading each other but also because the reader fashions his or her own self by reading the text. In this sense, the reader is caught in the repetition compulsion of what the readers in the text are doing and forced to take part in the game of reading. Thus tracing the process of self-fashioning in the text is also tracing the way the reader is making his or her own self precisely by reading the self-making of the characters.

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