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Author | : Ken Ito |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1991-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 080476607X |
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No Japanese writer was more obsessed with desire than Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886–1965). Over a career that spanned half a century, he explored, with both joyful fascination and ruthless insight, the dazzling varieties of sexuality, the complementary attractions of exoticism and nostalgia, the human yearning for mastery over others, and the tense relationship between fantasy and the exterior world. His fiction is filled with portrayals of desire in all its violence, irony, pathos, and comedy. In one of Tanizaki's novels, a young engineer fascinated with the West sets out to transform a Japanese bar girl into his very own version of Mary Pickford. He succeeds to such an extent that the girl, growing tired of his immutable Japaneseness, begins to take foreign lovers. Cuckolded and humiliated though his is, the engineer is unable to leave his fantasy-come-to-life and resigns himself to enslavement. In another novel, a Westernized Japanese finds himself gradually drawn to the past. Specifically, he is attracted to his father-in-law's companion, a young woman who has been trained and costumed to play the part of an old-fashioned mistress. Though this woman is no more a flesh-and-blood embodiment of tradition than a bunraku doll, the protagonist contemplates a life with someone like her, a life defined by the pursuit of abstract, dehumanized cultural ideals. Visions of Desire locates such novels in the shifting discourse on cultural identity and cultural aspiration that permeates Japanese life. Ito argues that Tanizaki's novels do not merely end in the reification and contemplation of cultural ideals but rather problematize the desire behind such ideals. He finds in the writer's fiction a subtle understanding of cultural aspiration as a process riddled with subversions, influenced by patterns of mediation, and circumscribed by the lonely efforts of individual subjectivity. He discovers in Tanizaki's fables about the male effort to transform women into cultural icons a clear awareness of the sexual and class hierarchies that make such transformation possible. Visions of Desire is the first book in English on a writer who is possibly modern Japan's greatest novelist. Ito has written for both the specialist and the general reader, setting his argument in a discussion both of Tanizaki's times and of the life of a writer who believed in living out the fantasies that fueled his fictions.
Author | : H. G. Cocks |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2017-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022643866X |
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The Roman Sodom -- City of destruction -- The end of the world -- Laws -- Histories -- Lust and morality in the (long) eighteenth century -- The discovery of Sodom, 1851
Author | : Amy J. Elias |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2003-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0801875439 |
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Co-winner of the Perkins Prize from the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature Has twentieth-century political violence destroyed faith in historical knowledge? What happens to historical fiction when history is seen as either a form of Western imperialism or a form of postmodern simulation? In Sublime Desire, Amy Elias examines our changing relationship to history and how fiction since 1960 reflects that change. She contends that postmodernism is a post-traumatic imagination that is pulled between two desires: the political desire to acknowledge the physical violence of twentieth-century history, and the yearning for an escape from that history into a ravishing realm of historical certainty. Torn between these desires, both historical fiction and historiography after 1960 redefine history as the "sublime," a territory beyond lived experience that is both unknowable and seductive. In the face of a failure of Enlightenment ideals about knowledge and the West's own history of violence, post-World War II history becomes a desire for the "secular sacred" sublime—for awe, certainty, and belief. Sublime Desire is an eloquent melding of theory and practice. Mixing the canonical with the unexpected, Elias analyzes developments in the historical romance genre from Walter Scott's novels to novels written today. She correlates developments in the historical romance to similar changes in historiography and philosophy. Sublime Desire draws engagingly on more than thirty relevant texts, from Tolstoy's War and Peace to Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry, Charles Johnson's Dreamer, and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain. But the book also examines theories of postmodern space and time and defines the difference between postmodern and postcolonial historical perspectives. The final chapter draws from trauma theory in Holocaust studies to define how fiction can pose an ethical alternative to aestheticized history while remaining open to pluralism and democratic values. In its range and sophistication, Sublime Desire is a valuable addition to postmodernist studies as well as to studies of the historical romance novel.
Author | : Margaret Pedler |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017-12-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781981990498 |
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The Vision of Desire
Author | : John M. Pontius |
Publisher | : CFI |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : |
Genre | : RELIGION |
ISBN | : 9781462128433 |
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Author | : Christina Dodd |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2009-08-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781101105306 |
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First in a new back-to- back series from the New York Times bestselling author Hailed as "a star in any genre,"(New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward) Christina Dodd delivers an exciting new paranormal romance that introduces The Seven, a secret society created to combat evil in all its deadly forms...
Author | : Stephen Schloesser |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2014-07-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0802807623 |
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French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908 1992) is probably best known for his Quartet for the End of Time, premiered in a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1941. However, Messiaen was a remarkably complex, intelligent person with a sometimes tragic domestic life who composed a wide range of music. This book explores the enormous web of influences in the early part of Messiaen's long life. The first section of the book provides an intellectual biography of Messiaen's early life in order to make his (difficult) music more accessible to the general listener. The second section offers an analysis of and thematic commentaries on Messiaen's pivotal work for two pianos, Visions of Amen, composed in 1943. Schloesser's analysis includes timing indications corresponding to a downloadable performance of the work by accomplished pianists Stphane Lemelin and Hyesook Kim.
Author | : Allen Ginsberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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A memoir of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady taking off from the text of Kerouac's 'Visions of Cody.' Also contains previously unpublished letters by Neal Cassady; a recently discovered manuscript of Ginsberg's from Denver, 1947, drawings by Basil King, and previously unpublished photos of Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and Peter Orlovsky.
Author | : Thomas Sowell |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2007-06-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0465004660 |
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Thomas Sowell’s “extraordinary” explication of the competing visions of human nature lie at the heart of our political conflicts (New York Times) Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern. He describes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the "unconstrained" vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. A Conflict of Visions offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the disparity between both outlooks.
Author | : Margaret Pedler |
Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2003-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781404388987 |
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