Special Issue: The “Third Term” and Narration: Post-Postmodernism and the Problems of Literary Education, Part II
The “Third Term” in Kenji Miyazawa’s “Otzbel-to-zou”
2013 Volume 62 Issue 8 Pages 62-72
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2013 Volume 62 Issue 8 Pages 62-72
According to Minoru Tanaka, as we homo linguisticus can’t recognize anything extra-linguistic, realities always lie somewhere outside the symbolic order of language. Therefore we cannot but keep on deconstructing our own linguistic system to come nearer to the Real or the “third term.” Tanaka’s theory of reading is strongly reminiscent of the Law of Moses in its attempt to seek after the absolute. Here with the concept of the third term I will read “Otzbel-to-zou,” Kenji Miyazawa’s short story about a tragic contact with the other system of language.
