Another Reading of Gon-gitsune(<Special Issue>The Perspective of Teaching Literature)

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  • 『ごんぎつね』をどう読むか(<特集>これからの文学教育の地平)
  • 『ごんぎつね』をどう読むか
  • ゴンギツネ オ ドウ ヨム カ

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According to Minoru Tanaka, "our everlasting dream" is embodied in Gon-gitsune. Certainly it is a story of an idealized village community in which people can hold communion not only with each other but even with nature. The "dream" of the lost self-sufficiency of such community-based society, however, must not be regarded as regressive and closed. On the contarary, seen from a different viewpoint, the space of Gon-gitsune is found to be rather outwardly directed with such positive themes as reception of death, freedom from solitude, universal love beyond individuality, and symbiosis with nature.

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