Don Juan east/west : on the problematics of comparative literature /
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| Author / Creator: | Yokota-Murakami, Takayuki. |
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| Imprint: | Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1998. |
| Description: | xiv, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series, the margins of literature |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3300038 |
Table of Contents:
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1.. Problematizing Comparative Literature
- Comparative Literature as a Discourse of Identification
- Problems of Transcivilizational Comparison of Don Juans
- The "Metaphysics" of Comparativism
- Chapter 2.. The Introduction of "Love" into Modern Japan
- The New Concept of Romantic Love
- Creation of the Signifier Ren'ai
- The "Meaning" of Love
- Sign and Reality
- The Comparative Frame of Don Juan as a "Lover"
- Chapter 3.. The Emergence of Don Juanism
- The Erasure of the Don Juan Theme in Early Modern Japan
- The Making of "Lust"
- Iro-otoko as a Lustful Man Enters
- Chapter 4.. Sexuality as a Historical Construct
- Sexuality as a "Natural" Fact
- Ogai's Vita Sexualis in the Context of Naturalism
- Sexuality as a "Root" of Human Nature
- The Emergence of a Sexual Life
- Don Juan as a Sexual Pervert Enters
- Chapter 5.. Politics of Comparative Literature
- "Love" and Its Connection with Humanism, Liberal Democracy, and Universalism
- Universalism as Disguised Eurocentrism
- Comparative Literature as a Universalist Discipline
- Comparative Literature as a Marshall Plan
- Conclusion: The Violence of Comparison
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index