Lived and romanticized illness: tuberculosis in the works of Masaoka Shiki and Kajii Motojirô
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-7125.i46p45-56Keywords:
Japanese Literature, Tuberculosis, Metaphor, Masaoka Shiki, Kajii MotojirôAbstract
This article aims to discuss how the poet and critic Masaoka Shiki and the writer Kajii Motojirô deal with tuberculosis, an illness they both contracted and from which they would die, in their literary works. In our opinion, their approach differs from that found in some 19thcentury novels in which illness and the sick are imbued with a sentimental aura as in the novel Hototogisu by Tokutomi Roka.
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