The Evolution of the Utopian Ideas in Kenji Miyazawa's Works

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  • 賢治文学におけるユートピアの新展開 : 希望と悲嘆との狭間
  • ケンジ ブンガク ニ オケル ユートピア ノ シンテンカイ キボウ ト ヒタン トノ ハザマ

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In his fable Yellow Tomato (1924), Kenji Miyazawa depicts the collapse of a utopian world. This paper focuses on his works from 1924 to 1927, analyzing the chronological movement of the writer's utopian views after Yellow Tomato. In these works we can firstly discern two dominant mental attitudes opposing each other: one is an enthusiastic expectation for coming of a new world and the other is a feeling of sorrow that can hardly be controlled. In his works around 1927, however, this contradictory mental state disappeared and the expectation for an ideal world or a violent revolution became dominant.

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  • Comparatio

    Comparatio 11 36-47, 2007-11-20

    Society of Comparative Culｔural Studies, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University

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