Nina Cornyetz

The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature

Polygraphic Desire

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Produktbeschreibung

This ground-breaking work is truly interdisciplinary and will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese literature, film, gender, culture, history and even psychoanalytic theory.

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This is a groundbreaking, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s through the Second World War and into the post-war period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780415770873
• ISBN-10: 0415770874
• Artikelnr.: 21003718

Autorenporträt

Nina Cornyetz is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at New York University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Woman as Second Nature and Other Fascist Proclivities
1. Myth-Making 2. Fascist Aesthetics 3. Kawabata and Fascist Aesthetics 4.
Virgins and Other Little Objects Part 2: The Politics of Climate and
Community in Woman in the Dunes and "The Idea of the Desert" 5. A Preface
to Woman in the Dunes: Space, Geopolitics, and The Idea of the Desert 6.
Social Networks and the Subject 7. Technologies of Grazing Part 3: Naming
Desire: Mishima Yukio and the Politics of "Sexuation" 8. Textualizing
Flesh, or, (In)articular Desire 9. Narcissism and Sadism: Mishima as
Homofascist 10. The Homosocial Fixing of Desire Part 4: Scripting the
Scopic: Disinterest in Double Suicide