Nature and Literature: Re-reading the Classical Texts after the Tohoku Earthquake

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  • 自然とテクスト
  • 自然とテクスト : 震災後の読み直し
  • シゼン ト テクスト : シンサイ ゴ ノ ヨミナオシ
  • ―― 震災後の読み直し ――

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<p>When I re-read several classical works after the Tohoku Earthquake in 2011, I couldn't help finding a certain marks of natural disasters left on some of them. So I thought that the author of Ise-monogatari might have depicted the landscape of Shiogama with the memory of the Jogan Sanriku Earthquake in mind. The fury of vengeance in Soga-monogatari must have been modeled after the violence of catastrophes such as earthquakes and eruptions. Takizawa-Bakin often used natural disasters as an important narrative device probably because he saw something sublime and transcendent in them. In this way here I will consider a relation between nature and literature in terms of the impact of natural disasters on literary works.</p>

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