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- Title
Meisho in Terms of Mobility and Ethical Literary Criticism: Meisho along Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi.
- Authors
Hyunyoung Lee; Yeonhee Woo
- Abstract
Meisho (...) refers to places in Japan far-famed for their literary references, originating from kagaku terminology (...) and now indicating a diverse range of places of interest. Meisho can be a subject of interdisciplinary studies involving celebrity study, mobility humanities, ethical literary criticism, and cultural memory study. Meisho in celebrity study can be regarded as an artificial fame that humans tag a place through media. Mobility decides the efficiency of how a place evolves from a relatively immobile constant into a mobile variable, namely meisho. Ethical literary criticism motivates humans to ethically select a place as meisho through literature. Literature derives from brain text, "memory stored in the human brain." In this sense, literature can be viewed as shared brain memory that is outsourced from brain text to written and electronic text. When a place is referred to constantly in literature, cultural memories for this place come into being and hence make this place meisho. This article aims to figure out the mechanism behind meisho by studying the ukiyoe series Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi as visual literature.
- Subjects
JAPAN; LITERARY criticism; INTERDISCIPLINARY education; CULTURAL studies
- Publication
Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, 2022, Vol 6, Issue 3, p399
- ISSN
2520-4920
- Publication type
Article