ISBN: 9780804762335

This Perversion Called Love positions one of Japan''s most canonical and best translated 20th century authors at the center of contemporary debates in feminism. Examining sexual perversio… More...

This Perversion Called Love positions one of Japan''s most canonical and best translated 20th century authors at the center of contemporary debates in feminism. Examining sexual perversion in Tanizaki''s aesthetic essays, cultural criticism, cinema writings and short novels from the 1930s, it argues that Tanizaki understands human subjectivity in remarkably Freudian terms, but that he is much more critical than Freud about what it means for the possibility of love. According to Tanizaki, perversion involves not the proliferation of interesting gender positions, but rather the tragic absence of even two sexes, since femininity is only defined as man''s absence, supplement, or complement. In this fascinating work, author Margherita Long reads Tanizaki with a theoretical complexity he demands but has seldom received. As a critique of the historicist and gender-focused paradigms that inform much recent work in Japanese literary and cultural studies, This Perversion Called Love offers exciting new interpretations that should spark controversy in the fields of feminist theory and critical Asian studies. | This Perversion Called Love by Margherita Long Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Margherita Long<

ISBN: 9780804762335

This Perversion Called Love positions one of Japan''s most canonical and best translated 20th century authors at the center of contemporary debates in feminism. Examining sexual perversio… More...

This Perversion Called Love positions one of Japan''s most canonical and best translated 20th century authors at the center of contemporary debates in feminism. Examining sexual perversion in Tanizaki''s aesthetic essays, cultural criticism, cinema writings and short novels from the 1930s, it argues that Tanizaki understands human subjectivity in remarkably Freudian terms, but that he is much more critical than Freud about what it means for the possibility of love. According to Tanizaki, perversion involves not the proliferation of interesting gender positions, but rather the tragic absence of even two sexes, since femininity is only defined as man''s absence, supplement, or complement. In this fascinating work, author Margherita Long reads Tanizaki with a theoretical complexity he demands but has seldom received. As a critique of the historicist and gender-focused paradigms that inform much recent work in Japanese literary and cultural studies, This Perversion Called Love offers exciting new interpretations that should spark controversy in the fields of feminist theory and critical Asian studies. Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory List_Books, [PU: Stanford University Press]<

ISBN: 9780804762335

This Perversion Called Love positions one of Japan''s most canonical and best translated 20th century authors at the center of contemporary debates in feminism. Examining sexual perversio… More...

This Perversion Called Love positions one of Japan''s most canonical and best translated 20th century authors at the center of contemporary debates in feminism. Examining sexual perversion in Tanizaki''s aesthetic essays, cultural criticism, cinema writings and short novels from the 1930s, it argues that Tanizaki understands human subjectivity in remarkably Freudian terms, but that he is much more critical than Freud about what it means for the possibility of love. According to Tanizaki, perversion involves not the proliferation of interesting gender positions, but rather the tragic absence of even two sexes, since femininity is only defined as man''s absence, supplement, or complement. In this fascinating work, author Margherita Long reads Tanizaki with a theoretical complexity he demands but has seldom received. As a critique of the historicist and gender-focused paradigms that inform much recent work in Japanese literary and cultural studies, This Perversion Called Love offers exciting new interpretations that should spark controversy in the fields of feminist theory and critical Asian studies. Books List_Books, [PU: Stanford University Press]<

ISBN: 9780804762335

This Perversion Called Love positions one of Japan''s most canonical and best translated 20th century authors at the center of contemporary debates in feminism. Examining sexual perversio… More...

This Perversion Called Love positions one of Japan''s most canonical and best translated 20th century authors at the center of contemporary debates in feminism. Examining sexual perversion in Tanizaki''s aesthetic essays, cultural criticism, cinema writings and short novels from the 1930s, it argues that Tanizaki understands human subjectivity in remarkably Freudian terms, but that he is much more critical than Freud about what it means for the possibility of love. According to Tanizaki, perversion involves not the proliferation of interesting gender positions, but rather the tragic absence of even two sexes, since femininity is only defined as man''s absence, supplement, or complement. In this fascinating work, author Margherita Long reads Tanizaki with a theoretical complexity he demands but has seldom received. As a critique of the historicist and gender-focused paradigms that inform much recent work in Japanese literary and cultural studies, This Perversion Called Love offers exciting new interpretations that should spark controversy in the fields of feminist theory and critical Asian studies. Books List_Books, [PU: Stanford University Press]<

ISBN: 9780804762335

Hardback, [PU: Stanford University Press], Through close readings of Tanizaki's and Freud's major writings from the 1930s, the book proposes new answers to classic feminist questions abou… More...

Hardback, [PU: Stanford University Press], Through close readings of Tanizaki's and Freud's major writings from the 1930s, the book proposes new answers to classic feminist questions about perversion., Literary Studies: From C 1900 -<