The Limits of Existential Therapy in the Fiction of Nakamura Fuminori
dc.contributor.advisor | Freedman, Alisa | |
dc.contributor.author | Murnion, Stephen | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-24T00:13:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-02-24T00:13:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-02-23 | |
dc.description.abstract | Written within an existentialist mode, Nakamura Fuminori’s early fictional works lend themselves to be read as therapeutic technologies reaching out to Japanese youth whose lives are marked by anxiety, isolation, and precariousness. Because English-language scholarship on Nakamura is lacking, this thesis analyzes two of his novels – Child of Dirt and Evil and the Mask – in order to introduce how Nakamura understands the human, how his texts function formally as therapeutic technologies, and how, in the final analysis, they exhibit a nascent sexism that borders on misogyny. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/19674 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | University of Oregon | |
dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | |
dc.subject | Child abuse | en_US |
dc.subject | Contemporary literature | en_US |
dc.subject | Existentialism | en_US |
dc.subject | Japan | en_US |
dc.subject | Lost Generation | en_US |
dc.subject | Therapy | en_US |
dc.title | The Limits of Existential Therapy in the Fiction of Nakamura Fuminori | |
dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures | |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Oregon | |
thesis.degree.level | masters | |
thesis.degree.name | M.A. |
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