book includes discussion of Tanizaki's cinema writings

[Christine Marran]

Stanford University Press is pleased to announce the publication of 
/This Perversion Called Love/, by Margherita Long.
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/In this fascinating work, Long reads Tanizaki with the theoretical 
complexity he demands but seldom receives. As a critique of the 
historicist and gender-focused paradigms that inform much recent work in 
Japanese literary and cultural studies, /This Perversion Called Love/ 
offers exciting new interpretations that should spark controversy in the 
fields of feminist theory and critical Asian studies. Examining sexual 
perversion in Tanizaki?s aesthetic essays, cultural criticism, cinema 
writings and short novels from the 1930s, it argues that Tanizaki 
understood human subjectivity in remarkably Freudian terms, but that he 
was much more critical than Freud about what this means for the 
possibility of love. 
 
More information about this book can be found at 
_http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=15983_