The Construction of Subject, Part 3: On a Mixture of the “Geocentric Model” and “Quantum Mechanics” in Literary Studies

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  • 世界像の転換、〈近代小説〉を読むために
  • 世界像の転換、〈近代小説〉を読むために(続々)〈主体〉の構築
  • セカイゾウ ノ テンカン 、 〈 キンダイ ショウセツ 〉 オ ヨム タメニ(ゾクゾク)〈 シュタイ 〉 ノ コウチク
  • ――続々〈主体〉の構築――

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<p>When we try to grasp the meaning of the world, we do so not only for some pragmatic purpose but also under the epistemological imperative to classify things into some sort of order. The world reflects not things themselves but just the way we see them. In short, there is nothing extra-linguistic in the world. Through this linguistic movement the subject both transforms and is transformed by objects. Thus we have to construct a sort of meta-subject precisely to understand such interactions between the two terms. As Antoine Compagnon points out in his narrative therapy, we need such a meta-subject for modern novels, a reader who is quite different from a traditional subject-reader for modern narratives.</p>

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  • Japanese Literature

    Japanese Literature 63 (8), 2-14, 2014-08-10

    Japanese Literature Association

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