Japanese Poeticity and Narrativity Revisited
Purdue University
October 4 - 6, 2002
Friday, October 4, 2002Stewart Center, Room 202
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.Welcoming Remark/RegistrationPaul Dixon, Head of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University
12:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.Aspects of Modern Poetry and Narrative: Feminism, Experimentalism, and Visuality
Jeffrey Angles, The Ohio State University, "The Visual Heritage of Symbolism: Visuality in Kitahara Hakushū and Murayama Kaita"
Annika A. Culver, University of Chicago, "Modernity and Ethnographic Eye: Images of Subversion and Anachronism in the Poetry of Kitagawa Fuyuhiko"
Kumiko Sato, Pennsylvania State University, "The Subject of Femininity and Poeticity: A Comparative Approach to Contemporary Japanese Women's Writings and Feminist Theory"
Tanaka Mitsuko, Josai International University, "Unsealing Yamakawa Tomiko's Tanka: Construction of Tomiko's Gendered Image in Contrast with Akiko's"
Horiuchi Kimiko, Josai International University, "Meiō Masako and America"
2:10 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.Poeticity and Narrativity in Tokugawa Poetry
Cheryl Crowley, Emory University, "Humor in the Haiku of Yosa Buson: Shinhanatsumi (New 'Flower Gathering') and Kokkei"
Lawrence Marceau, University of Delaware, "'Chōka for Our Time': Shimizu Hamaomi's Sedge Root Collection"
Roger K. Thomas, Illinois State University, "Poetry Fit to Sing: Tachibana Moribe and the Chōka Revival"
3:40 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.Literary Space in Prewar Japan: Redefining the Narrative of Modern Narrativity
Melek Ortabasi, Hamilton College, "Sketching Out the Critical Tradition:
Yanagita Kunio and the Reappraisal of Realism"
Rachel DiNitto, The College of William & Mary, "Bungei Shunjū and Literary Freedom in the Age of Publication"
Ted Mack, The University of Washington, "Social Realism: Exteriority and the Modern Literary Canon"
5:15 pm - 6:15 pmKeynote Address I: Kojima Naoko, Rikkyo University,"明���径了蹐離献Д�ダ・踉桟狙�А峭Ы�魑討硫痢廚畔�� (Construction of Gender in Meiji Shintaishi: 'A Song of Shiragiku the Faithful' and Monogatari)"
Saturday, October 5Stanley Coulter Hall, Room 239
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.Waka, Buddhism, and the Medieval Commentarial Tradition
Esperanza Ramirez Christensen, University of Michigan, "Emptiness and Medieval Poetics"
Keller Kimbrough, Colby College, "Nomori no kagami and the Perils of Poetic Heresy"
Susan Blakeley Klein, University of California, Irvine, "Down the Primrose Path: Narihira as Love God in Medieval Poetic Commentaries and the Noh"
Lewis Cook, Queens College, CUNY, discussant
10:10 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.Contemporary Intertextuality and Practices of Deconstructive Rewriting
Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto, "With Traces: The Iterability of Memory and Narration in Contemporary Japanese Literature"
Davinder L. Bhowmik, University of Washington, "A 'Lite' Battle Narrative: Medoruma Shun's 'Suiteki'"
Mikiko Iwana, Columbia University, "Intermingling Voices: Nakagami Kenji, Tanizaki Jun'ichiroo Murasaki Shikibu, and William Faulkner"
Irena Hayter, University of London, "Wagahai wa neko dearu satsujin jiken as a Postmodern Sequel"
1:30 pm - 3:10 pmWomen and Translation: Subversive Textuality
Eve Zimmerman, Wellesley College, "Girl at the Window: Kōno Taeko and Wuthering Heights"
Nakagawa Shigemi, Ritsumeikan University, "Crossroads of Poeticity and Narrativity in Modern Women Writers: Wakamatsu Shizuko, Adelade Ann Procter, Hayashi Fumiko, and Jean Lhys"
Judy Wakabayashi, Kent State University, "Out of the Shadows: Applying a Feminist Framework to Translation in Meiji and Modern-Day Japan"
Sarah Strong, Bates College, "Whoever Said Springtime was for Blossom? Kokinshuu Poetics, Ainu Orality, and Chiri Yukie's Preface to the Ainu Shin'yōshū"
3:20p.m. - 4:40 p.m.Theorization of Poetry and Narrative: Tradition and Modernity
Rein Raud, University of Helsinki, "Narrative and Poetic Progression: The Logic of Associativity"
Stephen D. Miller, University of Colorado, "Shinbutsu shūgō and Medieval Poetics: Waka as Ritual in the Jingi-ka and Shakkyō-ka of the Senzaishū and Shinkokinshū"
Aiko Okamoto MacPhail, Indiana University, "From the Pages of Classics to the Fantastic Tales: Kyokutei Bakin and Seven Rules of Fiction"
Michael F. Marra, University of California, Los Angeles, "Worlds in Tension: Kuki Shūzō's (1888-1941) Poetry and Poetics"
5:00p.m. - 6:00 p.m.Keynote Address II: Mizuta Noriko, Josai International University,"Beyond Ie and Metropolis: Modern Japanese Women Poets' Imagination toward Outside"
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.Reception at the home of Teresa and Eiji Sekine
Sunday, October 6Stanley Coulter Hall, Room 239
9:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.Politics of Literature: Reality, Literarism, and Nativism
Adam L. Kern, Harvard University, "Nativism and Far-Fetched Explanations (Kojitsuke)"
Dean Brink, Saint Martin's College, "Transforming the National Poetry: The Kokinshū 'Kana Preface' in Early Shintaishi"
Mike Sugimoto, University of Puget Sound, "Japanese Poeticity and Aestheticism; The Shi Shōsetsu (詩)����"
James Dorsey, Dartmouth College, "'Bungaku' 1946: The Reification of the Wartime Paradigm"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.Poetry Reading ConcertYoshimasu Gōzō, Josai International University, and Marilya Corbot Yoshimasu
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.Welcoming Remark/RegistrationPaul Dixon, Head of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University
12:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.Aspects of Modern Poetry and Narrative: Feminism, Experimentalism, and Visuality
Jeffrey Angles, The Ohio State University, "The Visual Heritage of Symbolism: Visuality in Kitahara Hakushū and Murayama Kaita"
Annika A. Culver, University of Chicago, "Modernity and Ethnographic Eye: Images of Subversion and Anachronism in the Poetry of Kitagawa Fuyuhiko"
Kumiko Sato, Pennsylvania State University, "The Subject of Femininity and Poeticity: A Comparative Approach to Contemporary Japanese Women's Writings and Feminist Theory"
Tanaka Mitsuko, Josai International University, "Unsealing Yamakawa Tomiko's Tanka: Construction of Tomiko's Gendered Image in Contrast with Akiko's"
Horiuchi Kimiko, Josai International University, "Meiō Masako and America"
2:10 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.Poeticity and Narrativity in Tokugawa Poetry
Cheryl Crowley, Emory University, "Humor in the Haiku of Yosa Buson: Shinhanatsumi (New 'Flower Gathering') and Kokkei"
Lawrence Marceau, University of Delaware, "'Chōka for Our Time': Shimizu Hamaomi's Sedge Root Collection"
Roger K. Thomas, Illinois State University, "Poetry Fit to Sing: Tachibana Moribe and the Chōka Revival"
3:40 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.Literary Space in Prewar Japan: Redefining the Narrative of Modern Narrativity
Melek Ortabasi, Hamilton College, "Sketching Out the Critical Tradition:
Yanagita Kunio and the Reappraisal of Realism"
Rachel DiNitto, The College of William & Mary, "Bungei Shunjū and Literary Freedom in the Age of Publication"
Ted Mack, The University of Washington, "Social Realism: Exteriority and the Modern Literary Canon"
5:15 pm - 6:15 pmKeynote Address I: Kojima Naoko, Rikkyo University,"明���径了蹐離献Д�ダ・踉桟狙�А峭Ы�魑討硫痢廚畔�� (Construction of Gender in Meiji Shintaishi: 'A Song of Shiragiku the Faithful' and Monogatari)"
Saturday, October 5Stanley Coulter Hall, Room 239
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.Waka, Buddhism, and the Medieval Commentarial Tradition
Esperanza Ramirez Christensen, University of Michigan, "Emptiness and Medieval Poetics"
Keller Kimbrough, Colby College, "Nomori no kagami and the Perils of Poetic Heresy"
Susan Blakeley Klein, University of California, Irvine, "Down the Primrose Path: Narihira as Love God in Medieval Poetic Commentaries and the Noh"
Lewis Cook, Queens College, CUNY, discussant
10:10 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.Contemporary Intertextuality and Practices of Deconstructive Rewriting
Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto, "With Traces: The Iterability of Memory and Narration in Contemporary Japanese Literature"
Davinder L. Bhowmik, University of Washington, "A 'Lite' Battle Narrative: Medoruma Shun's 'Suiteki'"
Mikiko Iwana, Columbia University, "Intermingling Voices: Nakagami Kenji, Tanizaki Jun'ichiroo Murasaki Shikibu, and William Faulkner"
Irena Hayter, University of London, "Wagahai wa neko dearu satsujin jiken as a Postmodern Sequel"
1:30 pm - 3:10 pmWomen and Translation: Subversive Textuality
Eve Zimmerman, Wellesley College, "Girl at the Window: Kōno Taeko and Wuthering Heights"
Nakagawa Shigemi, Ritsumeikan University, "Crossroads of Poeticity and Narrativity in Modern Women Writers: Wakamatsu Shizuko, Adelade Ann Procter, Hayashi Fumiko, and Jean Lhys"
Judy Wakabayashi, Kent State University, "Out of the Shadows: Applying a Feminist Framework to Translation in Meiji and Modern-Day Japan"
Sarah Strong, Bates College, "Whoever Said Springtime was for Blossom? Kokinshuu Poetics, Ainu Orality, and Chiri Yukie's Preface to the Ainu Shin'yōshū"
3:20p.m. - 4:40 p.m.Theorization of Poetry and Narrative: Tradition and Modernity
Rein Raud, University of Helsinki, "Narrative and Poetic Progression: The Logic of Associativity"
Stephen D. Miller, University of Colorado, "Shinbutsu shūgō and Medieval Poetics: Waka as Ritual in the Jingi-ka and Shakkyō-ka of the Senzaishū and Shinkokinshū"
Aiko Okamoto MacPhail, Indiana University, "From the Pages of Classics to the Fantastic Tales: Kyokutei Bakin and Seven Rules of Fiction"
Michael F. Marra, University of California, Los Angeles, "Worlds in Tension: Kuki Shūzō's (1888-1941) Poetry and Poetics"
5:00p.m. - 6:00 p.m.Keynote Address II: Mizuta Noriko, Josai International University,"Beyond Ie and Metropolis: Modern Japanese Women Poets' Imagination toward Outside"
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.Reception at the home of Teresa and Eiji Sekine
Sunday, October 6Stanley Coulter Hall, Room 239
9:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.Politics of Literature: Reality, Literarism, and Nativism
Adam L. Kern, Harvard University, "Nativism and Far-Fetched Explanations (Kojitsuke)"
Dean Brink, Saint Martin's College, "Transforming the National Poetry: The Kokinshū 'Kana Preface' in Early Shintaishi"
Mike Sugimoto, University of Puget Sound, "Japanese Poeticity and Aestheticism; The Shi Shōsetsu (詩)����"
James Dorsey, Dartmouth College, "'Bungaku' 1946: The Reification of the Wartime Paradigm"
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.Poetry Reading ConcertYoshimasu Gōzō, Josai International University, and Marilya Corbot Yoshimasu