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Reading manipulation in Runaway Horses by Mishima Yukio

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In her seminal work, Authoritarian Fictions: Ideological Novels as a Literary Genre, Susan Rubin Suleiman emphasizes the co-optational dimension of romans à thèse, which seem addressed to readers who are already converted to the ideological perspective of these works. Political novels therefore tend to divide readers into two categories: proponents on the one hand, denigrators on the other. Based on a close reading of Runaway Horses (1969), Mishima Yukio’s most overtly ideological fictional w...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Oxford college:
Pembroke College
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Author
Publisher:
Duke University Press Publisher's website
Journal:
Poetics Today Journal website
Volume:
40
Issue:
4
Pages:
683–698
Publication date:
2019-12-01
Acceptance date:
2017-11-01
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1527-5507
ISSN:
0333-5372
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English
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2018-04-17

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