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positions (2015) 23 (2): 259–285.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of the conventions of novel narration itself, with unnerving success. “Gan” represents a culmination of his critical explorations of the ethics of novel form, and not the radical break from his former methodologies that has been theorized. This essay examines the method of self-conscious critique Ōgai employs...
View articletitled, Triangulating an Ethos: <span class="search-highlight">Ethical</span> Criticism, <span class="search-highlight">Novel</span> Alterity, and Mori Ōgai's “Stereoscopic Vision”
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Journal Article
positions (2017) 25 (3): 565–593.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Takehiro Watanabe In late 1980s Japan, loan sharks surfaced as heroes in graphic novels set in the world of predatory moneylending. A genre of manga about usury gained popularity as monthlies began to run serialized stories that parody class inequality through gratuitous, chauvinistic depictions...
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positions (2007) 15 (3): 580–608.
Published: 01 August 2007
... novel is a celebration of the main characters in their prime,
its parallel in Fin-de-Siècle invents misfortunes for these characters that did
not occur in its predecessor.
There is an ethical dimension to evaluating works that deal with effemi...
Journal Article
positions (2015) 23 (2): 197–200.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of
the blind, the one-eyed poke their other eye out.
Following these savage studies it is almost a meditative relief to read this
issue’s final three essays. Christopher Weinberger’s “Triangulating an Ethos:
Ethical Criticism, Novel Alterity...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (2): 403–428.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to the past, its violence, and the debt that they — that
we — have to settle.
To sum up then, The Remains of Life is not so much a nonpolitical novel
as it is a move beyond politics and into an ethical relationship with oth-
ers...
Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (3): 573–600.
Published: 01 August 2024
...) has termed the “cinema of infidelity” produced in the mainland in the 1990s, which revealed the “ambiguities of the Reform” that embodied the desire, anxiety, allure, and ethical danger of the era of transformation. The subject of “erotics plus finance” in Leung's novels reveals how economic...
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View articletitled, A Collective Fantasia of the Financial Age in Early 1990s China: Erotic-Speculative Sensation, Neoliberal Labor Heroine, and Presentist Worldly Wisdom
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for article titled, A Collective Fantasia of the Financial Age in Early 1990s China: Erotic-Speculative Sensation, Neoliberal Labor Heroine, and Presentist Worldly Wisdom
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positions (2007) 15 (1): 165–208.
Published: 01 February 2007
..., is that “the politico-ethical
allegory projected by Rabindranath is displaced into the purely erotic” and
onto the somewhat homoerotic interplay of characters in his major novels,
that fault may have been Tagore’s way of displacing into a more familiar...
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positions (2008) 16 (1): 39–77.
Published: 01 February 2008
... the idea of both dog
and human and the distinction between the two. Apparently the police are
currently investigating twenty-two other such acts of dog violence.5
In J. M. Coetzee’s stunning novel Disgrace, the only possibility for dogs...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (2): 263–278.
Published: 01 May 2008
... and renders him or her a self-absorbed
aesthete. In other words, emotion is ethically constrictive and politically
immobilizing. From the emotionally absorbed individuals — typically of
bourgeois or petit-bourgeois extraction — one...
Journal Article
positions (1995) 3 (1): 69–96.
Published: 01 February 1995
... novels definitely cut across
to the su. Although the language of Lin Shu’s translation was certainly
classic, some would say archaic, it was immensely popular, accessible to
most educated readers. Lin Shu’s career as a translator...
Journal Article
positions (1994) 2 (1): 91–112.
Published: 01 February 1994
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force that breaks the language of the novel. The poetic madness also shows a
clear failure to respond to the horrifying events surrounding the actual
assassin in a rationalist, judicial manner. Yet, conversely, this breakdown...
Journal Article
positions (1995) 3 (3): 663–694.
Published: 01 August 1995
... ethical and aesthetic narrativization
of heterosexual male fear of, and fascination with, desire for women (hao nu
se). Narration functions in this case as the primary mode of representation
whose structuring principle is an ethical...
Journal Article
positions (2022) 30 (4): 793–814.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Chialan Sharon Wang Abstract This article focuses on Wu Ming‐Yi's 2015 novel, The Stolen Bicycle , and examines the way individuals’ storytelling is interwoven with scientific and historical facts to construct cultural memory and reinscribe the meaning of native soil. The novel unfolds...
Journal Article
positions (2010) 18 (2): 351–372.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Amie Parry; Liu Jen-peng Both avant-garde and popular, Lucifer Hung's writing has attracted a significant amount of critical attention in Chinese academic circles for its explicit sexual and violent content. This article identifies an ethical conundrum faced by critics who want to support Hung's...
Journal Article
positions (2015) 23 (4): 665–694.
Published: 01 November 2015
... (1993). These are all part of a larger
work, a serial novel titled Klail City Death Trip (hereafter KCDT), which
currently comprises fifteen volumes. The passage from Korean Love Songs
I cited above suggests that soldiers like Rafe found...
Journal Article
positions (2007) 15 (3): 457–486.
Published: 01 August 2007
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nature of spectatorship, as practiced both by “direct” witnesses and by “con-
sumers” of images, exploring not only vision’s problematic ethics but also its
suspect epistemology. That is to say, his texts assume a compulsive and con-
flicted...
Journal Article
positions (2015) 23 (2): 379–380.
Published: 01 May 2015
... on Murakami
Haruki forthcoming in Novel: A Forum on Fiction. He is currently writing a book manu-
script, Reflexive Ethics in Modern Japanese Literature. ...
Journal Article
positions (2017) 25 (3): 595–629.
Published: 01 August 2017
...) and Chetan Bhagat's novel Two States: The Story of My Marriage (2009) form key texts in this analysis. These texts serve as good examples of a wide repertoire of high- and middlebrow experiments with affect and its aesthetic forms in a context of intensified transactions and seepages between public...
Journal Article
positions (1998) 6 (3): 507–513.
Published: 01 August 1998
... and occupied
a contested and unstable ground. Perhaps the moral freight attaching to
medical positivism- the widely held view that only scientifically verifiable
knowledge is an ethical foundation for clinical intervention-has led...
Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (2): 233–258.
Published: 01 May 2024
... features in men and their destinies which will make a spectator, separated from these events by centuries, feel himself a direct participant of them. The ‘ tua res agitur ’ (it concerns you) of drama has a meaning qualitatively different from that of the novel.” The genre of drama challenges the bygone...
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