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Discourses of seduction : history, evil, desire, and modern Japanese literature

Title
Discourses of seduction : history, evil, desire, and modern Japanese literature / Hosea Hirata.
Author
Hirata, Hosea, 1952-
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.

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x, 304 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 242
Subject
  • Japanese literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Seduction in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-297) and index.
Contents
Into the interiority of language: seduction of literature in house of the sleeping beauties -- Murakami Haruki's Missing names -- Karatani Kōjin -- The singularity of ecstasy in Furui Yoshikichi's Yōko -- To slit the beautiful body/Text: Mishima's jouissance to death -- Masturbation, the Emperor, and the language of the sublime in Oe Kenzaburō -- Historiography of the blind: history and masochistic ecstasy -- The emergence of history in Natusme Sōseki's Kokoro -- Criticism in poetry: Kobayashi Hideo as a poet manquʹe -- Home and history: Kobayashi Hideo and other visionaries of the past.
Call Number
*OSB 05-3066
ISBN
0674016556 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004027204
OCLC
56806745
Author
Hirata, Hosea, 1952-
Title
Discourses of seduction : history, evil, desire, and modern Japanese literature / Hosea Hirata.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.
Series
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 242
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-297) and index.
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