NJIT 331 – (Free) iTunes Lecture on Mishima

The following lecture, focusing on Mishima’s short story “ Patriotism” is available for download free via iTunes:

Norbert Elliot
New Jersey Institute of Technology
World Literature II, Lecture 12 – Yukio Mishima

The presentation is fairly even handed and informative, and Elliot does a decent job of putting the short story in context with Mishima’s other work as well as the events of November 25, 1970. Mercifully, he avoids the overbearing narcissism angle and identifies Mishima’s suicide, correctly I think, as a carefully executed aesthetic and symbolic statement–poetry with a splash of blood.

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