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1. Perversion and Modern Japan

   Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture

   Edited by Nina Cornyetz, J. Keith Vincent

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Natsume Soseki’s canonical novel Kokoro pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? What do we make of Jacques Lacan’s infamous claim that because of the nature of their language the Japanese people...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
2. The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature

   Polygraphic Desire

   By Nina Cornyetz

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into the post-war period. Nina Cornyetz embarks on new and unprecedented readings of some of the most significant literary and film texts of the Japanese...

   Published April 30th 2008 by Routledge