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Vita Sexualis

Author : Ogai Mori
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462902219
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Vita Sexualis written by Ogai Mori and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic and controversial work of Japanese literature presents a rare look at Meiji-ara Japanese sexuality. Though banned three weeks after its publication in 1909, Vita Sexualis is far more than a prurient erotic novel. The narrator, a professor of philosophy, wrestles with issues of sexual desire, sex education, and the proper place of sensuality. He tells the story of his own journey into sexual awareness, spanning fifteen years, from his first exposure to erotic woodcuts at the age of six, to his first physical response to a woman, and his eventual encounter with a professional courtesan. Beyond being a poignant account of one boy's coming of age, Vita Sexualis is also an important record of Japan's moral struggles during the cultural upheaval of the last years of the Meiji era. In response to the publication of Vita Sexualis, Ogai Mori was reprimanded by Japan's vice-minister of war.

Vita Sexualis

Author : Ralph M. Leck
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252098188
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Vita Sexualis written by Ralph M. Leck and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Ulrichs's studies of sexual diversity galvanized the burgeoning field of sexual science in the nineteenth century. But in the years since, his groundbreaking activism has overshadowed his scholarly achievements. Ulrichs publicly defied Prussian law to agitate for gay equality and marriage, and founded the world's first organization dedicated to the legal and social emancipation of homosexuals. Ralph M. Leck returns Ulrichs to his place as the inventor of the science of sexual heterogeneity. Leck's analysis situates sexual science in a context that includes politics, aesthetics, the languages of science, and the ethics of gender. Although he was the greatest nineteenth-century scholar of sexual heterogeneity, Ulrichs retained certain traditional conjectures about gender. Leck recognizes these subtleties and employs the analytical concepts of modernist vita sexualis and traditional psychopathia sexualis to articulate philosophical and cultural differences among sexologists. Original and audacious, Vita Sexualis uses a bedrock figure's scientific and political innovations to open new insights into the history of sexual science, legal systems, and Western amatory codes.

In the Company of Men

Author : Jim Reichert
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804752145
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book In the Company of Men written by Jim Reichert and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Company of Men examines representations of male-male sexuality in literature from the Meiji period, when Japan launched an unprecedented modernization campaign.

Don Juan East/West

Author : Takayuki Yokota-Murakami
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791436653
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (366 download)

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Book Synopsis Don Juan East/West by : Takayuki Yokota-Murakami

Download or read book Don Juan East/West written by Takayuki Yokota-Murakami and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential guide for those who seek to reconsider the theoretical problems of (trans-civilizational) comparative literature, those who are interested in the literary and cultural history of modern East Asian countries, and those with a general interest in issues of sexuality.

Vita Sexualis

Author : 森鴎外
Publisher : Rutland, Vt. : C. E. Tuttle Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Vita Sexualis written by 森鴎外 and published by Rutland, Vt. : C. E. Tuttle Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important record of Japans moral struggles during the cultural upheaval of the Meiji era.

Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics in Japanese Fiction

Author : Christopher Weinberger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics in Japanese Fiction written by Christopher Weinberger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can novels contribute to the ethical lives of readers? What responsibilities might they bear in representing others? Are we ethically accountable for how we read fiction? This study takes up modern Japanese fiction and metafiction, subjects overwhelmingly ignored by Anglophone scholarship on novel ethics, to discover pioneering answers to these and other questions. Each chapter offers new readings of major works of modern Japanese literature (1880s through 1920s) that experiment with the capacity of novel narration to involve readers in ethically freighted encounters. Christopher Weinberger shows that Mori Ogai and Akutagawa Ryunosuke help to address key issues in new ethical theories today: debates about the roles that identification and empathy play in novel ethics; concerns about the representation of “otherness” and alterity in novels; divergence between cognitive and affective theories of ethics; widespread disagreement about what novel ethics obtain in the experience of reading, the effects of reading, or the form or content of novel representation; and, finally, concerns with bias and appropriation in the study of world literature. Concluding with a jump to the present, Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics in Japanese Fiction puts on display a startling continuity between the methods of Japan's modern novel progenitors and those of novelists at the forefront of global literature today, especially Haruki Murakami. Ultimately, this book models an original approach to ethical criticism while demonstrating the relevance of modern Japanese fiction for rethinking contemporary theories of the novel.

The Seduction of Youth

Author : Javier Samper Vendrell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487536062
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Seduction of Youth written by Javier Samper Vendrell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple man from the provinces, Friedrich Radszuweit merged popular culture, consumerism, and politics as the leader of the League for Human Rights, Germany’s first mass homosexual organization. The Seduction of Youth is the first study to focus on the League and its leader, using his position at the centre of the Weimar-era gay rights movement to tease out the diverging political strategies and contradictory tactics that distinguished the movement. By examining news articles and opinion pieces, as well as literary texts and photographs in the League’s numerous pulp magazines for homosexuals, Javier Samper Vendrell reconstructs forgotten aspects of the history of same-sex desire and subjectivity. While recognizing the possibilities of liberal rights for sexual freedom during the Weimar Republic, the League’s "respectability politics" failed in part because Radszuweit’s own publications contributed to the idea that homosexual men were considered a threat to youth, doing little to change the views of the many people who believed in homosexual seduction – a homophobic trope that endured well into the twentieth century.

Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Illinois

Author : Christopher A. Phillips
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252053257
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Illinois written by Christopher A. Phillips and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Illinois offers up-to-date information on the state’s 102 species of frogs and toads, salamanders, turtles, lizards, and snakes. Detailed descriptions by the authors include habitats, distinguishing features, behaviors, and other facts, while revised range maps and full-color photographs help users recognize animals in the field. In addition, an identification key and easy-to-navigate page layouts guide readers through extensive background material on each species' population, diet, predators, reproduction, and conservation status. A one-of-a-kind resource, the Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Illinois is a definitive guide aimed at biologists, teachers, students, wildlife specialists, natural resource managers, conservationists, law enforcement officials, landowners, hobbyists, and everyone else eager to explore herpetology and nature in the Prairie State.

Mori Ôgai

Author :
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447058049
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Mori Ôgai written by and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating the findings of Rosa Wunner in Japonica Humboldthiana 2 (1998)

Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West

Author : Steve Odin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824823740
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West written by Steve Odin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West takes up the notion of artistic detachment, or psychic distance, as an intercultural motif for East-West comparative aesthetics. The work begins with an overview of aesthetic theory in the West from the eighteenth-century empiricists to contemporary aesthetics and concludes with a survey of various critiques of psychic distance. Throughout, the author takes a highly innovative approach by juxtaposing Western aesthetic theory against Eastern (primarily Japanese) aesthetic theory. Weaving between cultures and time periods, the author focuses on a remarkably wide range of theories: in the West, the Kantian notion of disinterested contemplation, Heidegger's Gelassenheit, semiotics, and pragmatism; in Japan, Zeami's notion of riken no ken, the Kyoto School's intepretation of nothingness, D. T. Suzuki's analysis of the function of no-mind, and the writings of Kuki Shuzo on Buddhist detachment. "Portrait of the artist" fiction by such writers as Henry James, James Joyce, Mori Ogai, and Natsume Soseki demonstrates how the main theme of detachment is expressed in literary traditions. The role of sympathy or pragmatism in relation to disinterest is examined, suggesting conflicts within or challenges to the notion of detachment. Researchers and students in Eastern and Western areas of study, including philosophers and religionists, as well as literary and cultural critics, will deem this work an invaluable contribution to cross-cultural philosophy and literary studies.

The Freedom of Migrant

Author : Vilem Flusser
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028175
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book The Freedom of Migrant written by Vilem Flusser and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003-04-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Freedom of the Migrant presents a series of reflections on national, ethnic, and cultural identity, offering a unique perspective on such topics as communication, nomadism, housing, nationalism, migrant cultures, and Jewish identity."--BOOK JACKET.

The Pre-Platonic Philosophers

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252025594
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Pre-Platonic Philosophers written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roughly formulating many of the themes he later developed at length, Nietzsche sketches concepts such as the will to power, eternal recurrence, and self-overcoming and links them to specific pre-Platonics." "This translation, complete with Nietzsche's own extensive sidenotes and philological citations, is accompanied by a prologue, introductory essay, and extensive translator's commentary.".

Recontextualizing Texts

Author : Atsuko Sakaki
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN 13 : 9780674750944
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Recontextualizing Texts written by Atsuko Sakaki and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering the first systematic examination of five modern Japanese fictional narratives, all of them available in English translations, Atsuko Sakaki explores Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro and The Three-Cornered World; Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain; Mori Ōgai's Wild Geese; and Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's Quicksand.

Gallus Dressler's Praecepta musicae poeticae

Author : Gallus Dressler
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252055640
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Gallus Dressler's Praecepta musicae poeticae written by Gallus Dressler and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available for the first time in English translation, this new edition of Gallus Dressler's Praecepta musicae poeticae corrects and expands upon earlier editions of one of the most important sixteenth-century treatments of musical theory and rhetoric. Robert Forgács’ detailed study of the Latin text reveals significant and original insights into the invention of fugues and the composition of opening, middle, and concluding sections. Forgács introduces the reader to Dressler's life and work and the design and sources of Praecepta musicae poeticae, places the treatise more fully in its humanist environment, presents additional classical sources for the text, and relates it to the work of Dressler’s contemporary music theorists. Copious annotations and indexes of words, names, and subjects place the treatise within the broader context of German theoretical discussion, the teaching and practice of music in the sixteenth century, and the musical life of the Lutheran Church.

Chronicles of My Life

Author : Donald Keene
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231144415
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of My Life written by Donald Keene and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I sometimes think that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left for me. Japanese, which at first had no connection with my ancestors, my literary tastes, or my awareness of myself as a person, has become the central element of my life." In this eloquent and wholly absorbing memoir, the renowned scholar Donald Keene shares more than half a century of his extraordinary adventures as a student of Japan. Keene begins with an account of his bittersweet childhood in New York; then he describes his initial encounters with Asia and Europe and the way in which World War II complicated that experience. He captures the sights, scents, and sounds of Japan as they first enveloped him, and talks of the unique travels and well-known intellectuals who later shaped the contours of his academic career. Keene traces the movement of his passions with delicacy and subtlety, deftly weaving his love for Japan into a larger narrative about identity and home and the circumstances that led a Westerner to find solace in a country on the opposite side of the world. Chronicles of My Life is not only a fascinating tale of two cultures colliding, but also a thrilling account of the emotions and experiences that connect us all, regardless of our individual origins.

Two-Timing Modernity

Author : Keith J. Vincent
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175283
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Two-Timing Modernity written by Keith J. Vincent and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Until the late nineteenth century, Japan could boast of an elaborate cultural tradition surrounding the love and desire that men felt for other men. By the first years of the twentieth century, however, as heterosexuality became associated with an enlightened modernity, love between men was increasingly branded as “feudal” or immature. The resulting rupture in what has been called the “male homosocial continuum” constitutes one of the most significant markers of Japan’s entrance into modernity. And yet, just as early Japanese modernity often seemed haunted by remnants of the premodern past, the nation’s newly heteronormative culture was unable and perhaps unwilling to expunge completely the recent memory of a male homosocial past now read as perverse. Two-Timing Modernity integrates queer, feminist, and narratological approaches to show how key works by Japanese male authors—Mori Ōgai, Natsume Sōseki, Hamao Shirō, and Mishima Yukio—encompassed both a straight future and a queer past by employing new narrative techniques to stage tensions between two forms of temporality: the forward-looking time of modernization and normative development, and the “perverse” time of nostalgia, recursion, and repetition."

Fictions of Desire

Author : Stephen Snyder
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824822361
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Fictions of Desire written by Stephen Snyder and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Snyder examines Kafu's fiction in terms of narrative strategy, placing him squarely within some of the most important currents of literary modernism--at the nexus of Naturalism and the largely antithetical development of the modernist reflexive novel.