Unruffling the Brow
by Jim Campbell The following excerpt is taken from a 1989 article by Andrew Smith, analyzing Yukio Mishima’s novel Confessions of a Mask: In addition to the textual dyads of Confessions of a Mask mentioned previously, instinctual binomials include the negativity between phenotext and genotext in general as well as, following Jakobson, any ‘double-sensed message’…