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Discourses of Seduction

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Description for Discourses of Seduction Hardcover. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 580.

If the postmodernist ethical onslaught has led to the demise of literature by exposing its political agenda, if all literature is compromised by its entanglement with power, why does literature's subterranean voice still seduce us into reading? Why do the madness and the scandal of transgressive literature, its power to force us to begin anew, its evil, escape the gaze of contemporary literary criticism? Why do we dare not reject ethics and the ethical approach to literature? If the primary task of literary criticism is to correct others' ethical missteps, should we not begin by confronting the seductiveness of ethics, ... Read more

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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674016552
SKU
V9780674016552
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About Hosea Hirata
Hosea Hirata is Associate Professor of Japanese at Tufts University.

Reviews for Discourses of Seduction
[An] intriguing study of modern Japanese literature… Hirata’s collection of essays, some previously published, covers a broad range a broad range of twentieth-century Japanese literature, from Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro (1914) to more contemporary works of fiction by well-known writers such as Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami. Along the way, Hirata also examines the work of an ... Read more

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