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Anxious Seas: Reading Affect in Dazai and Murdoch
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Lubitz, Joseph B
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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5954-4892
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1451406893
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2014, BA, Oberlin College, Comparative Literature.
Abstract
This paper advances a re-reading of psychoanalytic “anxiety” as it is constructed through the modern novel, invoking contemporary affect theory, and finding an origin in the Heideggerian notions of Stimmung, Unheimlich and Angst. Looking at two works at the margins of the period and genre of the 20th Century modern novel that both share a fascination with introspective male protagonists--a Japanese “I-novel” called No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) by Dazai Osamu, and The Sea, The Sea, by British writer Iris Murdoch--reveals a peculiar aesthetic questioning of subject and object specific to these works’ varied usages of ekphrasis and fascination with seascape.
Committee
William Patrick Day (Advisor)
John Harwood (Committee Member)
Ann Sherif (Committee Member)
Pages
66 p.
Subject Headings
Aesthetics
;
Asian Literature
;
Comparative Literature
;
Literature
Keywords
Martin Heidegger
;
Osamu Dazai
;
Iris Murdoch
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Lubitz, J. B. (2014).
Anxious Seas: Reading Affect in Dazai and Murdoch
[Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1451406893
APA Style (7th edition)
Lubitz, Joseph.
Anxious Seas: Reading Affect in Dazai and Murdoch.
2014. Oberlin College, Undergraduate thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1451406893.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Lubitz, Joseph. "Anxious Seas: Reading Affect in Dazai and Murdoch." Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1451406893
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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Anxious Seas: Reading Affect in Dazai and Murdoch by Joseph B Lubitz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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