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The Otherworldly Topography: Some Aspects of Space and Movement in Izumi Kyōka’s Yuna no tamashii

Vorobiev, Artem
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3037-9088
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282069181

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2010, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, East Asian Languages and Literatures.
Izumi Kyōka’s work has long been seen by the literary critics and historians of Japanese literature as a counter-thesis to modernity. Kyōka has been variously described as opposing, undermining, and countering the idiosyncratic changes of the Japanese society and psyche brought about by the myriad reforms introduced during the Meiji era. In this vein, Izumi Kyōka’s recourse to and use of the themes of the supernatural is seen as a literary tool of countering the onslaught of the modern age. Using my translation of Kyōka’s novel, Yuna no tamashii (The Spirit of the Bath Girl), I will argue in this thesis that the prevailing paradigm is somewhat two-dimensional, and that a more complex picture could be gleaned from some aspects of Kyōka’s writing. I will attempt to show that Kyōka’s treatment of space is suggestive of a more complex relationship with modernity, namely, that it is evocative of a symbiotic, rather than adversarial relationship between modernity and the supernatural.
Richard Torrance, Dr. (Advisor)
Naomi Fukumori, Dr. (Committee Member)
84 p.
Asian Literature; Language; Literature
Izumi Kyoka; Yuna no tamashii; Spirit of the Bath Girl; Japanese literature; Meiji; supernatural; ghosts

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  • Vorobiev, A. (2010). The Otherworldly Topography: Some Aspects of Space and Movement in Izumi Kyōka’s Yuna no tamashii [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282069181

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Vorobiev, Artem. The Otherworldly Topography: Some Aspects of Space and Movement in Izumi Kyōka’s Yuna no tamashii. 2010. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282069181.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Vorobiev, Artem. "The Otherworldly Topography: Some Aspects of Space and Movement in Izumi Kyōka’s Yuna no tamashii." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282069181

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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