Discourses of Seduction: History, Evil, Desire, and Modern Japanese Literature

by Hosea Hirata

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674016556
• ISBN13: 9780674016552
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"