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Tag Archives: literature
Book Announcement: Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives
Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives Sachi Schmidt-Hori In medieval Japan (14th–16th centuries), it was customary for elite families to entrust their young sons to the care of renowned Buddhist priests from whom they received … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Shakespeare and East Asia
Shakespeare and East Asia Alexa Alice Joubin Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes that distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theatres from works in other parts of the world: … Continue reading
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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
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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Tagged Japanese literature, japanese studies, journal, literature
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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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Tagged Edo, Edo literature, Edo period, Japan, Japanese literature, literature
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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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Tagged book announcement, film, Japan, Japanese film, Japanese literature, literature, modern, modern Japan
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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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Job Opening: Visiting Assistant Professor in Japanese Studies, UCSB
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications for the position of Visiting Assistant Professor for the 2019-2020 academic year. We seek applicants with expertise in Japanese literature from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Japan, job opening, literature, Meiji Japan, Meiji literature, modern literature
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