Edited by Atsuko Ueda and Richard Okada

Published: 2009-02-20

FRONT MATTER

Front Matter, including an Editors’ Preface by Atsuko Ueda and Richard Okada

Atsuko Ueda, Richard Okada
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1701

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

The fate of the Japanese language in the age of English

Minae Mizumura
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1702

FEATURED PANEL: RETHINKING SŌSEKI'S BUNGAKURON: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

Owning up to Sōseki: the theory of literature vs. the theory of copyright

Michael K. Bourdaghs
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1703

The specter of empire in Matthew Arnold, Natsume Sōseki, and Kōtoku Shūsui

Mark Anderson
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1704

Stumbling past the threshold of languages: Natsume Kinnosuke's contiguous space of language, literature, and theory

Atsuko Sakaki
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1705

読者としての漱石

Sōseki as Reader

Yuko Iida
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1706

Discussant's comments on 'Rethinking Sōseki's Bungakuron: a centennial celebration'

Brett de Bary
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1707

BORDERS IN MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE AND LITERARY THEORY

The naturalist novel and the boundaries of Japanese literature

Christopher L. Hill
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1708

Translating, intertextualizing, and the 'borders' of 'Japanese literature'

Karen Thornber
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1709

The European border of Japanese literature

Teresa Ciapparoni La Rocca
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1710

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: JAPANESE LITERATURE AND QUEER THEORY

Haunted by the sexy samurai: Ranpo's mobilization of the queer past in 'Shudō mokuzuzuka'

Jeffery Angles
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1734

Eroticizing the other woman: what queer theory can(not) tell us about Japanese women's writing

Julia C. Bullock
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1735

Queer / nation: from 'Nihon bungaku' to 'Nihongo bungaku'

Christopher D. Scott
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1739

"POLITICAL" LITERATURE AND "POLITICIZING" LITERATURE

'Nothing more than useless luxury': literary theory after disaster

Alex Bates
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1713

Politics of writing: Nakano Shigeharu and Tenkō literature

Yukiko Shigeto
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1714

Cultural translation in modern Japanese children's literature: Uno Kōji's rewriting of 'Fuki no shita no kamisama'

Kyoko Ando
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1715

Narrating Hokkaidō: Kunikida Doppo and a new vision of literature

Young-ah Chung
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1716

THEORIZING AESTHETIC AND GENRE CATEGORIES

Frameworks of meaning: old aesthetic categories and the present

Michael Marra
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1717

The vicissitudes of drama as a literary genre in Meiji-Taishō debates

M. Cody Poulton
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1718

The literary theory of Shimamura Hōgetsu and the construction of Japanese naturalism

Massimiliano Tomasi
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1719

'Two irreconcilable, but also inseparable, nevertheless incomparable greatnesses': Mori Ōgai's parallax reading (and writing) of literary theory

Shion Kono
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1720

THEORIZING "PREMODERN" AND "MODERN" PERSPECTIVES

Performance anxieties, or hitting on theory

Dennis Washburn
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1721

Cognitive theories of embodiment and metaphor in Japanese Buddhist poetry (shakkyō-ka): an exploratory essay

Stephen D. Miller
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1722

The chrysanthemum and the gourd: theorizing the formation of literary identities in early modern Japan in the context of signets, seal marks, and pseudonyms

Dylan McGee
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1723

Potentiality of literary experience: the role of the past in medieval poetic theories

Mariko Naito
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1724

THE ENDS OF LITERATURE

The language of mourning: Miyake Kaho's elegy for Higuchi Ichiyō and the end of classical literature

Timothy J. Van Compernolle
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1725

The novel and the end of homosocial literature

Keith Vincent
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1726

On the 'end': Mishima Yukio and the double dislocation of literature

Gavin Walker
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1727

Chasing the tails of tales: Nakagami Kenji and the end of folklore

Nina Cornyetz
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1728

"OTHERING" IN LITERATURE

Manchukuo and the creation of a new national literature: Kawabata Yasunari and 'Manchurian' culture, 1941-1942

Annika A. Culver
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1729

Mimicry in Japanese colonial fiction

Robert Tierney
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1730

Theorizing the house of Unwelcome: re-reading Yū Miri's Furu Hausu and Jacques Derrida's De L'Hospitalité

Catherine Ryu
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1731

Detecting the unconscious: Edogawa Ranpo and narratives of modern experience

Satoru Saito
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v9i.1700