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Tag Archives: literature
Book Announcement: An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750 –1850
An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750 –1850 edited by Sumie Jones with Kenji Watanabe This is an anthology of literature centered in the city of Edo, now Tokyo, from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century. It includes many … Continue reading
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Job Openings: Japanese History and Chinese Literature or Film
Institution: Yonsei University (Underwood International College), Department of Asian Studies Location: Korea, Republic of Position: Assistant Professor, Tenure Track Positions in Japanese History and Chinese Literature/Film Underwood International College, Asian Studies Division Yonsei University Tenure track Positions … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater
Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater. Wondrous Brutal Fictions presents eight seminal works from the seventeenth-century Japanese sekkyō and ko-jōruri puppet theaters, many translated into English for the first time. Both poignant and disturbing, these whimsical narratives contain … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, Buddhism, early modern, Edo period, fiction, Japan, Japanese religion, joruri, literature, puppet theater, religion
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Book Announcement: An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750-1850
Via the University of Hawai’i Press: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8943-9780824837402.aspx An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750-1850 Editor: Jones, Sumie; Watanabe, Kenji; 528pp. February 2013 Paper – Price: $30.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3740-2 Cloth – Price: $70.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3629-0 During the eighteenth century, Edo … Continue reading
Job Opening: Premodern Japanese Literature
J. F. Oberlin University The College of Arts and Sciences at J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo, invites applications for a tenure-track/tenured position in the field of Premodern Japanese Literature. Appointment will be at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, … Continue reading
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Tagged J. F. Oberlin University, Japan, Japanese literature, job opening, literature, premodern, premodern Japan, Tokyo
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Call for Papers: Association for Japanese Literary Studies
The theme of the 2013 Association for Japanese Literary Studies Annual Meeting is “Performance and Japanese Literature.” The conference will be held October 18-20 on the campus of the University of Chicago. The deadline for submitting paper proposal abstracts (300 … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Association for Modern Japanese Literary Studies
AMJLS is happy to announce the conference and call for papers below. Call for papers: “International Research Conference: Interfaces of Modern Japanese Literature” Application deadline: May 31, 2013 Location: Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan Date: December 1, 2013 [URL] Japanese & English: http://amjls.web.fc2.com/gakkai.html#international-e Chinese:http://amjls.web.fc2.com/international-c.pdf … Continue reading
Doctoral Fellowships: [general] Globalization and Literature. Representations, Transformations, Interventions
For more information, see https://www.graduatecenter-lmu.de/global/index.php?lang=en http://www.en.grk-globalisierung.uni-muenchen.de/index.html Doctoral Fellowships The DFG-Research Training Group “Globalization and Literature. Representations, Transformations, Interventions” established at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (Germany), invites applications for • 7 Doctoral Fellowships starting in October, 2013, for up to … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Performance and Japanese Literature
The theme of the 2013 Association for Japanese Literary Studies Annual Meeting is “Performance and Japanese Literature.” The conference will be held October 18-20 on the campus of the University of Chicago. Performance offers a concept through which to re-examine … Continue reading
Job Opening: Cinema Studies/Visual Culture (East Asian), Modern Japanese Literature or Cultural History
Institution: Nagoya University, Graduate School of Letters Location: Japan Position: Associate Professor or Full Professor, Cinema Literature Culture The Graduate School of Letters of Nagoya University, Japan, invites applications for two faculty positions beginning in October 2013: one position in … Continue reading
What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 