The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature: Polygraphic Desire / Edition 1

by Nina Cornyetz

Overview

This is a groundbreaking, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s through the Second World War and into the post-war period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415770873
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/21/2006
Series:	Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nina Cornyetz is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at New York University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Woman as Second Nature and Other Fascist Proclivities 1. Myth-Making 2. Fascist Aesthetics 3. Kawabata and Fascist Aesthetics 4. Virgins and Other Little Objects Part 2: The Politics of Climate and Community in Woman in the Dunes and "The Idea of the Desert" 5. A Preface to Woman in the Dunes: Space, Geopolitics, and The Idea of the Desert 6. Social Networks and the Subject 7. Technologies of Grazing Part 3: Naming Desire: Mishima Yukio and the Politics of "Sexuation" 8. Textualizing Flesh, or, (In)articular Desire 9. Narcissism and Sadism: Mishima as Homofascist 10. The Homosocial Fixing of Desire Part 4: Scripting the Scopic: Disinterest in Double Suicide