This perversion called love : reading Tanizaki, feminist theory, and Freud / Margherita Long.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Long, Margherita, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō, 1886-1965--Criticism and interpretation.

Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō.

Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō, 1886-1965.

Feminist literary criticism--Japan.

Feminist literary criticism.

Psychoanalysis and literature--Japan.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Japan.

Physical Description:

xiii, 180 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]

Contents:

Introduction

Suffering through Japanese culturalism : Tanizaki's aesthetic essays and the inexorable western superego

The problem with parody : masochism, the death drive, and the laws of thermodynamics in "Satō Haruo" and The secret history of the Lord of Musashi

Toward a mother-love worthy of the name : the language of abjection in Arrowroot, Nakagami, and Irigaray

The sadism of the scopic regime : Portraint of Shunkin, feminist film theory, and Tanizaki's cinema essays

Conclusion : everything you always wanted to know about performativity but were afraid to ask Tanizaki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804762335

0804762333

OCLC:

297406080