Second, this thesis contributes to the rhetorical cannon by drawing on Japanese discourses. First, though rhetoricians have consistently argued that novels are appropriate for analysis, there are few who have been willing to engage this type of artifact. Theoretically and methodologically, this paper draws upon Marxist theory and employs a critical rhetorical orientation to provide three contributions. It argues that Abe’s novel functions both as supplement and disruption to the Marxist tradition of scholarly thought. This thesis presents a critical analysis of Japanese author Kōbō Abe’s novel, The Woman in the Dunes. A dialectic of distance: Emancipation in Kōbō Abe's “The Woman in the Dunes”
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