A Jewel Shining in the Mud
A Jewel Shining in the Mud
Love and Money in Konjiki yasha
This chapter examines the issues about love and money in the melodramatic novel Konjiki yasha by Ozaki Kōyō. It analyzes how this novel attempts to mobilize melodrama's binary morality and shows that the passions in this novel are produced as much by ideological failure as by ideological certitude. This chapter argues that the novel exhibits ideological contradiction on many levels and contends that it fails to uphold a binary opposition between “momentary” money and eternal love.
Keywords: love, money, Konjiki yasha, Ozaki Kōyō, binary morality, ideological failure, ideological certitude, ideological contradiction
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