AN ANALYSIS OF THE SHORT STORY FLASH STORM BY TON SATOMI
AN ANALYSIS OF THE SHORT STORY FLASH STORM BY TON SATOMI
Author(s): Irina-Ana DrobotSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Novel, Other Language Literature, Cultural Essay, Philology, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Zen Buddhism; Shintoism; Romanticism; the sublime; psychoanalysis;
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyse, by using reader-response criticism as a main methodological framework, the short story Flash Storm by Ton Satomi (2023). Reader-response criticism claims that readers react emotionally to texts, and that they also rely on their background knowledge in order to understand them (Mart, 2019). As the paper analyses the Japanese short story based on close-reading, the background knowledge of readers is also introduced, and it relies on cultural awareness, psychoanalysis, the Romantic concept of the sublime, notions of non-verbal communication, as well as intertextuality. We notice a point of intersection between cultural aspects of the Asian and Western worlds: the similar connection with the natural world in Romantic literature and arts and Japanese Zen Buddhism and Shintoism, as well as the accompanying philosophical reflections.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2026
- Issue No: 45
- Page Range: 170-177
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
