Visions Of Desire
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Visions Of Desire
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Author : Ken Ito
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1991-07-01
Visions Of Desire written by Ken Ito and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Vision Of Desire
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Author : Margaret Pedler
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-12-24
The Vision Of Desire written by Margaret Pedler and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-24 with categories.
The Vision of Desire
The Vision Of Desire
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Author : Margaret Pedler
language : en
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Release Date : 2003-07
The Vision Of Desire written by Margaret Pedler and has been published by IndyPublish.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07 with Fiction categories.
Visions Of Sodom
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Author : H. G. Cocks
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-03-29
Visions Of Sodom written by H. G. Cocks and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-29 with History categories.
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
Gender Protest And Same Sex Desire In Antebellum American Literature
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Author : Dr David Greven
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2014-03-28
Gender Protest And Same Sex Desire In Antebellum American Literature written by Dr David Greven and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Expanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges inherent in the expression of same-sex desire, Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls ‘gender protest’ in the writings of Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. As Greven shows, antebellum authors took up the taboo subjects of same-sex desire and female sexuality and were adept in their use of a variety of rhetorical means for expressing the inexpressible.
Creating Your Soul Map
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Author : Jeremy Lopez
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-07-16
Creating Your Soul Map written by Jeremy Lopez and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-16 with categories.
In the very first book of its kind, Dr. Jeremy Lopez invites the reader to embark upon a magical and miraculous journey in the science and spirituality behind vision boards. In this riveting and historic book, Dr. Lopez encourages you to feel the inspiration and power that comes from writing down your dreams and visions. Your vision board is your tool to bring the riches of Heaven to Earth, as never before. What do you truly desire? What are your God-given dreams and promises? Your vision board is your reminder to all of creation the promises of God for your life. By writing down your vision for your life, you are bringing your dream life into reality. "If you can see it, then you can surely have it."
The Economy Of Desire The Church And Postmodern Culture
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Author : Daniel M. Jr. Bell
language : en
Publisher: Baker Books
Release Date : 2012-11-01
The Economy Of Desire The Church And Postmodern Culture written by Daniel M. Jr. Bell and has been published by Baker Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Religion categories.
In this addition to the award-winning Church and Postmodern Culture series, respected theologian Daniel Bell compares and contrasts capitalism and Christianity, showing how Christianity provides resources for faithfully navigating the postmodern global economy. Bell approaches capitalism and Christianity as alternative visions of humanity, God, and the good life. Considering faith and economics in terms of how desire is shaped, he casts the conflict as one between different disciplines of desire. He engages the work of two important postmodern philosophers, Deleuze and Foucault, to illuminate the nature of the postmodern world that the church currently inhabits. Bell then considers how the global economy deforms desire in a manner that distorts human relations with God and one another. In contrast, he presents Christianity and the tradition of the works of mercy as a way beyond capitalism and socialism, beyond philanthropy and welfare. Christianity heals desire, renewing human relations and enabling communion with God.
Licentious Fictions
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Author : Daniel Poch
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2019-12-24
Licentious Fictions written by Daniel Poch and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjō—literally “human emotion,” but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. For many writers and critics, fiction’s capacity to foster both licentiousness and didactic values stood out as a crucial source of ambivalence. Simultaneously capable of inspiring exemplary behavior and a dangerous force transgressing social norms, ninjō became a focal point for debates about the role of the novel and a key motor propelling narrative plots. In Licentious Fictions, Daniel Poch investigates the significance of ninjō in defining the literary modernity of nineteenth-century Japan. He explores how cultural anxieties about the power of literature in mediating emotions and desire shaped Japanese narrative from the late Edo through the Meiji period. Poch argues that the Meiji novel, instead of superseding earlier discourses and narrative practices surrounding ninjō, complicated them by integrating them into new cultural and literary concepts. He offers close readings of a broad array of late Edo- and Meiji-period narrative and critical sources, examining how they shed light on the great intensification of the concern surrounding ninjō. In addition to proposing a new theoretical outlook on emotion, Licentious Fictions challenges the divide between early modern and modern Japanese literary studies by conceptualizing the nineteenth century as a continuous literary-historical space.
Desire Dream Vision
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Desire Dream Vision written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Family Homoeopathy
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Author : John Ellis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Family Homoeopathy written by John Ellis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Homeopathy categories.