Anonymous
7/3/2025, 9:14:20 PM No.24517981
I'm starting a PhD soon with a focus on Japanese literature, and I'm seriously considering specializing in the eastern tradition of eremitic writing — tracing it from its Chinese origins through medieval Japan all the way to the modern era.
To any anons who've read picrel: would it be too much of a stretch to dedicate final part of my work to analyzing dreamscape's chapter on literary hermitage as a metaphor for 4chan? I'm thinking of framing it as a kind of meta-postmodern parody of Japanese culture and literature, something that ironically mirrors the themes of solitude, detachment, and aesthetic minimalism found in classical eremitic texts, but filtered through modern irony and globalized digital alienation.
I'll also take any recs for chinese/japanese lit with a focus on hermitage.
To any anons who've read picrel: would it be too much of a stretch to dedicate final part of my work to analyzing dreamscape's chapter on literary hermitage as a metaphor for 4chan? I'm thinking of framing it as a kind of meta-postmodern parody of Japanese culture and literature, something that ironically mirrors the themes of solitude, detachment, and aesthetic minimalism found in classical eremitic texts, but filtered through modern irony and globalized digital alienation.
I'll also take any recs for chinese/japanese lit with a focus on hermitage.
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