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: title: Into the interiority of language: seduction of literature in house of the sleeping beauties; title: Murakami Haruki's Missing names; title: Karatani Kōjin; title: The singularity of ecstasy in Furui Yoshikichi's Yōko; title: To slit the beautiful body/Text: Mishima's jouissance to death; title: Masturbation, the Emperor, and the language of the sublime in Oe Kenzaburō; title: Historiography of the blind: history and masochistic ecstasy; title: The emergence of history in Natusme Sōseki's Kokoro; title: Criticism in poetry: Kobayashi Hideo as a poet manquʹe; title: Home and history: Kobayashi Hideo and other visionaries of the past.