Discourses of seduction : history, evil, desire, and modern Japanese literature / Hosea Hirata.
Discourses of seduction : history, evil, desire, and modern Japanese literature / Hosea Hirata.
Discourses of seduction : history, evil, desire, and modern Japanese literature / Hosea Hirata.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.
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2005.
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N895.60935/1
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x, 304 p. ; 24 cm.
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Introduction : beginning from somewhere else -- 1. Into the interiority of language : the seduction of literature in House of the sleeping beauties -- 2. Naming and historicity -- 3. The singularity of ecstasy in Furui Yoshikichi's Yoko -- 4. To slit the beautiful body/text : Mishima's Jouissance to...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Massachusetts
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2005.
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"In a series of essays on the writings of Kawabata Yasunari, Murakami Haruki, Karatani Kojin, Furui Yoshikichi, Mishima Yukio, Oe Kenzaburo, Natsume Soseki, and Kobayashi Hideo, Hosea Hirata visits the primal force of the scandalous in an effort to repeat (in the Kierkegaardian sense) the originary scene that initiates the obscure yet insistent poe...
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Discourses of seduction : history, evil, desire, and modern Japanese literature / Hosea Hirata.
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 242.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-297) and index.
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N895.60935/1
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0674016556 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674016552 (cloth : alk. paper)
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895.609353
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991019851699702626
