Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature - Polygraphic Desire

Informationen zum Autor Nina Cornyetz is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at New York University, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nina Cornyetz, Nina (New York University Cornyetz, Cornyetz Nina
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 21.11.2006
• EAN: 9780415770873
• ISBN: 978-0-415-77087-3
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; Japan, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / Social History, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Literature: history and criticism, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis