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Tag Archives: Japanese literature
Book Announcement: Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Pleasure in ProfitPopular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan Laura Moretti In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response to readers’ … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Kyoto: A Literary Guide
Kyoto: A Literary Guide Edited by John Dougill Reposting from the official blurb on the Camphor Press website: This fascinating selection of Kyoto-specific literature takes readers through twelve centuries of cultural heritage, from ancient Heian beginnings to contemporary depictions. The … Continue reading
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Open Access Special Journal Issue: Narratological Perspectives on Premodern Japanese Literature
Narratological Perspectives on Premodern Japanese Literature Edited by Sebastian Balmes With articles by Sonja Arntzen, Jinno Hidenori, Midorikawa Machiko, Simone Müller, Takeuchi Akiko, Michael Watson, Robert F. Wittkamp, and myself. This special issue comprises eight studies that deal with Japanese … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Ghastly Tales from the Yotsuya kaidan
Ghastly Tales from the Yotsuya kaidan, ed. with an Introduction by Takashi Saitō Perhaps the most famous and oft told tales of horror in Japan, the Yotsuya kaidan tells of a young woman named Iwa and the curse she carried … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750
A KAMIGATA ANTHOLOGY: LITERATURE FROM JAPAN’S METROPOLITAN CENTERS, 1600–1750 Edited by Sumie Jones and Adam L. Kern with Kenji Watanabe This is the first of a three-volume anthology of Edo- and Meiji-era urban literature that includes An Edo Anthology: Literature from … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film: The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades
Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film: The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades By Marc Yamada This book provides the first interdisciplinary examination of the popular fiction and film of the “lost decades” of Japan’s Heisei period (1989–2019). Presenting … Continue reading
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Job Opening: Lecturer in Japanese Literature, University of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia is looking to appoint a new Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Japanese Literature, with a specialistion in modern and/or contemporary Japanese literature and the ability to teach and research other aspects of Japanese literature. This is … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Social Trauma, Narrative Memory and Recovery in Japanese Literature and Film
Social Trauma, Narrative Memory, and Recovery in Japanese Literature and Film David C. Stahl This book provides a comprehensive analysis of major works in Japanese literature and film through the interpretive lens of trauma and PTSD studies. Focusing critical attention … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: The Haiku of Basho
The Haiku of Basho, by John White and Kemmyo Taira Sato The Buddhist Society, London: 2019 See: https://www.thebuddhistsociety.org/page/5-7-5-the-haiku-of-basho-1 Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is widely acknowledged as the greatest of all the Japanese haiku poets. In the original Japanese, the two defining features of … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Unbinding the Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic
Unbinding The Pillow Book The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic Gergana Ivanova An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the Japanese canon. Yet it has … Continue reading
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