Edited by Eiji Sekine.

Published: 1999-01-01

FRONT MATTER

Introduction

Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen
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KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

Literature as History / History as Literature

Yōichi Komori
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A geopolitics of literation: toward a psychoanalysis of Japan

Kōjin Karatani
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(PRE) (POST) MODERNISM AND AESTHETICS

The new as violence and the hermeneutics of slimness

Michele Marra
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Festival and form in Ichikawa's Yukinojō henge

Stephanie Deboer
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Superposition, montage, and dialectics in haiku, Pound, Eisenstein, and Benjamin

Takao Hagiwara
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SEXUALITY, GENDER, AND POWER

Meshūdo and the system of sexuality in The Tale of Genji and other Heian texts

Saeko Kimura
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Genji, at least, was not a rapist: the nature of love and the parameters of sexual coercion in the literature of the Heian court

Margaret H. Childs
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Staging female suicide on Otokoyama: new historicist readings of power and gender in the noh theater

Steven T. Brown
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Izumi Kyōka's Jouissance: dangerous women and deadly words

Nina Cornyetz
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REPRESENTATIONS

Challenging the field of classical Japanese literature cultural production: Iwasa Miyoko's 'Through the Eyes of a Court Lady' (Nyōbō no me)

Lynne Miyake
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Counter-Orientalism and textual play in Akutagawa's 'The Ball' (Butōkai)

David Rosenfeld
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The depiction of non-Japanese in Sōseki's novels

Atsuko Handa
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HISTORIES IN (OF) THE TEXT

連歌興行に見る一揆精神の変遷

Ikki Spirit in Renga

Hiroo Tsurusaki
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Postwar anthologies remember the prewar: censorship and the textual condition of 'The Family of Koiwai'

Heather Bowen-Struyk
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源氏物語』のなかの交易史、権力、ジエンダー

Trade History in Genji monogatari

Fusae Kawazoe
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A wife's discourse: Dazai's Viyon no tsuma and the revision of civil law

Richie Sakakibara
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Reading the 'court' in courtesan: the historicization of the role of yūjo in some Muromachi tales

Sarah M. Strong
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LITERARY HISTORY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY

The politics of loss: on Etō Jun

Ann Sherif
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A historiography of the blind: the location of history and masochistic ecstasy in 'The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away'

Hosea Hirata
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Kambun, histories of Japanese literature, and Japanologists

John Timothy Wixted
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Escaping the impasse in the discourse on national identity: Hagiwara Sakutarō, Sakaguchi Ango, and Nishitani Keiji

James Dorsey
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(PRE) (POST) MODERNITY AND FICTION

Authoring shishōsetsu from left to right

Minae Mizumura
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Good bye shōsetsu, hello again, monogatari? The validity of restoring contextuality in prose

Atsuko Sakaki
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Cultural ambivalence and sexuality in Tsubouchi Shōyō's Tōsei shosei katagi

Jim Reichert
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Tsubouchi Shōyō's negotiations in The Essence of the Novel (Shōsetsu shinzui)

Atsuko Ueda
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物語の方法と日記文学―『更級日記』を中心に

Monogatari’s Methodology and Nikki Literature: On The Sarashina Diary

Moriyuki Itō
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