Diary Literature as the Multiplication or the Dismantling Process of the "Subject" : Focussing on "the Dawn of the Eleventh" in Murasaki Shikibu Diary

Abstract

During the late 1970', the attempt to define the diary literature by using the term "jisho bungaku" (self-illuminating literature) came to a standstill. Since then we have not seen any conspicuous progress in the study of the diary literature. The problem lies in the system in which the author traces back to the orbit of her own action and contemplates it, the concepts of the author being forced to stand without any premises. I'm attempting to refer to the "functions" of the "langue" and the "parole" which Saussure advocated compared to the "system" and "the infringement of the system". When these functions are applied to the reading of literary works, the Cartesian concept of "the author", which always used to interfere with the diary literature study, seems to disappear into the "expressions".