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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781049603321

Autore

Long Margherita <1967->

Titolo

This perversion called love [[electronic resource] ] : reading Tanizaki, feminist theory, and Freud / / Margherita Long

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA, : Stanford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8047-7251-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Disciplina

895.6/344

895.6344

Soggetti

Feminist literary criticism - Japan

Psychoanalysis and literature - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.