Hosea Hirata is Associate Professor of Japanese at Tufts University.

[An] intriguing study of modern Japanese literature… Hirata’s collection of essays, some previously published, covers a broad range a broad range of twentieth-century Japanese literature, from Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro (1914) to more contemporary works of fiction by well-known writers such as Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami. Along the way, Hirata also examines the work of an influential writer less well known in the West, Furui Yoshikichi, as well as the critic Kojin Karatani… It is the depth of Hirata’s argument, and the intriguing new readings of some modern classics, that make Discourses of Seduction a powerful addition to the small but growing number of studies of modern Japanese literature.

Hosea Hirata is Associate Professor of Japanese at Tufts University.

[An] intriguing study of modern Japanese literature… Hirata’s collection of essays, some previously published, covers a broad range a broad range of twentieth-century Japanese literature, from Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro (1914) to more contemporary works of fiction by well-known writers such as Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami. Along the way, Hirata also examines the work of an influential writer less well known in the West, Furui Yoshikichi, as well as the critic Kojin Karatani… It is the depth of Hirata’s argument, and the intriguing new readings of some modern classics, that make Discourses of Seduction a powerful addition to the small but growing number of studies of modern Japanese literature.

Hosea Hirata is Associate Professor of Japanese at Tufts University.

[An] intriguing study of modern Japanese literature… Hirata’s collection of essays, some previously published, covers a broad range a broad range of twentieth-century Japanese literature, from Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro (1914) to more contemporary works of fiction by well-known writers such as Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami. Along the way, Hirata also examines the work of an influential writer less well known in the West, Furui Yoshikichi, as well as the critic Kojin Karatani… It is the depth of Hirata’s argument, and the intriguing new readings of some modern classics, that make Discourses of Seduction a powerful addition to the small but growing number of studies of modern Japanese literature.