Programme Section 3a Modern Literature
click on the session
titles to get to the respective abstracts
Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
|
Opening Session |
|
| 16:30 | Nation and nature: The aesthetics of landscape in Shiga Shigetaka's Nihon Fukei Ron (1894) (Thomas Hackner) |
| 17:00 | Political allusions in Mori Ogai's early classical Chinese poetry (Susanne Klien) |
| 17:30 | Mori Ogai's translation of Henrik Ibsen's plays - A Doll's House (Yoichi Nagashima) |
| 18:00 | end of the academic programme |
Thursday, September 1, 2005 |
|
Session 1 |
|
| 9:00 | Meiji Theatricality: The reform debate and crossovers between rakugo, kabuki and literature (Ian MacArthur) |
| 9:30 | Kijin: Accounts of Eccentrics and Failures in the Kindai Bundan (Marvin Marcus) |
| 10:00 | Kurahara Korehito's theory on literary realism in a comparative context (Mats Karlsson) |
| 10:30 | coffee break |
Session 2
|
|
| Panel | Chair: Miri Nakamura Discussant: Christopher Bolton |
| 11:00 | Body as the site of 'difference': Jinzô ningen and the Robot Boom in 1920s Japan (Miri Nakamura) |
| 11:30 | Japan's 'Modanizumu Literature' and the Representation of the Body (Oshino Takeshi) |
| 12:00 | The Body in War Poems (Nosaka Akio) |
| 12:30 | lunch break |
Session 3
|
|
| Panel | Chair: Yoshida Morio Discussant: Nakayama Akihiko |
| 14:30 | Modern Animal Tales and kagaku yomimono (Yoshida Morio) |
| 15:00 | From Shojo Shosetsu to War Reporting from the Front Lines (Kume Yoriko) |
| 15:30 | Shokokumin and other visually-oriented magazines during the war (Tsuboi Hideto) |
| 16:00 | coffee break |
Session 4 |
|
| 16:30 | The real feeling as the form of poetic expression and the play with words: Yosano Akiko ( Aida Musulyevna Souleimenova) |
| 17:00 | Kitagawa Fuyuhiko and prose poem as a missing link in modernist evolution (Lauri Kitsnik) |
| 17:30 | end of the academic programme |
Friday, September 2, 2005 |
|
Session 5
|
|
| Panel | Chair: Mark Gibeau Discussant: Teru Shimamura |
| 9:00 | The Ethnographic Narrator: Culture and violence in Sato Haruo's 'Dream Bird' (Robert Tierney; to be read by another member of the panel) |
| 9:30 | Why did Tamura Toshiko promote trans-national solidarity among women in China? (Makiko Yamazaki) |
| 10:00 | Remembering Manchuria or Why Abe Kobo hated cherry blossoms? (Mark Gibeau) |
| 10:30 | coffee break |
Session 6 |
|
| 11:00 | The literary manifestation of the German-Japanese dialectic in postwar Japanese fiction: Oda Makoto's Contribution (Roman Rosenbaum) |
| 11:30 | Tanizaki and the gendered body of modernity (Vera Mackie) |
| 12:00 | Ishikawa Jun's 'Fugen', or the political unconscious of Modernism (Irena Hayter) |
| 12:30 | lunch break |
Session 7 |
|
| 14:30 | Mishima's Kyoko No Ie: The house as narrative structure (Matilde Mastrangelo) |
| 15:00 | Intertextual approach on Mishima Yukio and Nihon Romanha (Terttu Rajala) |
| 15:30 | Sartre's concept of "freedom" in Japanese post-war literature (Simone Müller) |
| 16:00 | coffee break |
Session 8 |
|
| 16:30 | Revisiting Birds in Modern Japanese Literature (Maryellen Mori) |
| 17:00 | Escaping endings, ending escape (Anne Thelle Backer) |
| 17:30 | A view from Japan's periphery: Discourses on gender, power relations, and the question of Okinawan cultural self-definition in Ôshiro Tatsuhiro's 'The Cocktail Party' (Ina Hein) |
| 18:00 | end of the academic programme |
Saturday, September 3, 2005 |
|
Session 9 |
|
| 9:00 | Identity establishing process - Some cases of Korean male and female writers resident in Japan (Noriko Thunman) |
| 9:30 | Chong Ch'u-wol and the aesthetics of Han (Tracey Gannon) |
| 10:00 | Zainichi Writer Yu Miri and the "beautiful village" (Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt) |
| 10:30 | coffee break |
Session 10 |
|
| 11:00 | Anonymously Yours: Photography in Contemporary Japanese Fiction (Atsuko Sakaki) |
| 11:30 | Kirino Natsuo: The transformation of a hard-boiled thriller author to a socio-critical psychologist (Diana Donath) |
| 12:00 | end of Section 3a |
Please note that all programme information is still subject to change.