Threatening Sights, Coveted Fantasies

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  • Title: Threatening Sights, Coveted Fantasies: The Making and Un-Making of Subjects and Objects of the Gaze in Kawabata Yasunari's Thousand Cranes, The Lake, and House of the Sleeping Beauties
  • Author(s): Gloria R. Montebruno Saller
  • Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
  • Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
  • Series: New Directions in the Humanities
  • Journal Title: The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review
  • Keywords: Modern Japanese Literature, Literary Theory, Gender Studies
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 9
  • Date: November 17, 2006
  • ISSN: 1447-9508 (Print)
  • ISSN: 1447-9559 (Online)
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v03i09/41836
  • Citation: Montebruno Saller, Gloria R.. 2006. "Threatening Sights, Coveted Fantasies: The Making and Un-Making of Subjects and Objects of the Gaze in Kawabata Yasunari's Thousand Cranes, The Lake, and House of the Sleeping Beauties." The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review 3 (9): 23-30. doi:10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v03i09/41836.
  • Extent: 8 pages

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Abstract

The psychology of Kawabata's characters presents a vision of unstable souls. Vision becomes blurred, including not only what the physical but also what the mind's eyes see.