Discourses of seduction
Subtitle: history, evil, desire, and modern Japanese literature
By: Hosea Hirata.
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 242.
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Seduction in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-297) and index.
Table of contents: value: Into the interiority of language: seduction of literature in house of the sleeping beauties; value: Murakami Haruki's Missing names; value: Karatani Kōjin; value: The singularity of ecstasy in Furui Yoshikichi's Yōko; value: To slit the beautiful body/Text: Mishima's jouissance to death; value: Masturbation, the Emperor, and the language of the sublime in Oe Kenzaburō; value: Historiography of the blind: history and masochistic ecstasy; value: The emergence of history in Natusme Sōseki's Kokoro; value: Criticism in poetry: Kobayashi Hideo as a poet manquʹe; value: Home and history: Kobayashi Hideo and other visionaries of the past.