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This perversion called love : reading Tanizaki, feminist theory, and Freud / Margherita Long.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Long, Margherita, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tanizaki, Junichiro, 1886-1965--Criticism and interpretation.
- Tanizaki, Junichiro.
- Feminist literary criticism--Japan.
- Feminist literary criticism.
- Psychoanalysis and literature--Japan.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through close readings of Tanizaki's and Freud's major writings from the 1930's, the book proposes new answers to classic feminist questions about perversion.
- Contents:
- Contents; Author's Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Suffering Through Japanese Culturalism: Tanizaki's Aesthetic Essays and the Inexorable Western Superego; 2. The Problem with Parody: Masochism, the Death Drive, and the Laws of Thermodynamics in "Sat-o Haruo" and The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi; 3. Toward a Mother-Love Worthy of the Name: The Language of Abjection in Arrowroot, Nakagami, and Irigaray; 4. The Sadism of the Scopic Regime: Portrait 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; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804772518
- 0804772517
- OCLC:
- 536418765
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