Literature and Literary Theory
Princeton University
November 2 - 4, 2007
Friday, November 2
8:00-8:30: Coffee and Welcoming Remarks
8:30-10:15: The Inside and Outside of Modern Japanese Literature"The Naturalist Novel and the Boundaries of Japanese Literature”Christopher Hill, Yale University
"Hayashi Fusao and the Notion of Historical Impurity” Richard Calichman, City College of New York
"'Colonial’ Fiction and Textual Identity” Edward Mack, University of Washington
"Post-bubble Literary Recovery: Alternate Histories, Light Novels, and Cell Phone Melodramas” Jonathan E. Abel, Bowling Green State University
10:30-12:15: Perspectives on “Modern” Methodologies"Postnationalism and kodai studies? Reading Ancient East Asia after the Critique of Nationalism” Jason Webb, University of Tokyo
"Historicism East and West: the ‘History of Poetry Circles’ in Modern Waka Scholarship”Gian Piero Persiani, Columbia University
"Nativism and Self-Censorship: Negotiating the Boundaries of Literaturein Late-Edo and Early Modern Japan” Patrick Caddeau, Princeton University
“Performance Anxieties, or Hitting on Theory”Dennis Washburn, Dartmouth College
12:15-1:15: Buffet Lunch (Frist Multipurpose Room)
1:15-3:00: Borders and Border-Crossings in Literature and Literary Theory"After a Fall: Who Needs Japanese Literature and Literary Theory?”Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, New York University
"Translating Betrayals and Betraying Translations: Reconceptualizing the Boundaries of Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature” Karen Thornber, Harvard University
"Who holds the whip? Colonial Subjectivity in Chinen Seishin’s The House of Peoples”Davinder Bhowmik, University of Washington
"The European Border of Japanese literature” Teresa Ciapparoni La Rocca, Sapienza Universita` di Roma
3:00-4:20: Strange Bedfellows: Japanese Literature and Queer Theory"Writing the Sexy Samurai: Queer Mobilizations of Historical Paradigms in Interwar Japan” Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan University
"Eroticizing the Other Woman: What Queer Theory Can(not) Tell Us About Japanese Women’s Writing” Julia C. Bullock, Emory University
"Queer/Nation: From ‘Nihon bungaku’ to ‘Nihongo bungaku’”Christopher D. Scott, Macalester College
4:30-6:15: “Politics” and Literature/Art"Kurahara Korehito and the Rhetoric of Utopia” Mats Karlsson, University of Sydney
"Nothing more than a useless luxury: Post-Disaster Literary Theory”Alex Bates, Dickinson College
"Politics of Writing: Nakano Shigeharu’s ‘Tenkō’ Literature” Yukiko Shigeto, University of Washington
"Constitutional and Canonical Revisions: Article 9 and Literature” Ann Sherif, Oberlin College
8:00-9:00: Keynote Address:"The Fate of the Japanese Language in the Age of English” Mizumura Minae
Saturday, November 3, 2007
8:00-8:30: Coffee and Pastries
8:30-10:15: Theorizing Aesthetic and Genre Categories"Frameworks of Meaning: Old Aesthetic Categories and the Present”Michael Marra, University of California Los Angeles
"The Vicissitudes of Drama as a Literary Genre in Meiji/Taishō Debates” M. Cody Poulton, University of Victoria
"The Literary Theory of Shimamura Hōgetsu and the Construction of Japanese Naturalism” Massimiliano Tomasi, Western Washington University
"'Two irreconcilable, but also inseparable, nevertheless incomparable magnitudes’: Mori Ōgai’s parallax reading (and writing) of literary theory” Shion Kono, Sophia University
10:30-12:15: Literature and the Modern Spatial Imaginary: Four Views from Hokkaidō"Cultural Translation and Modern Japanese Children’s Literature: Uno Kōji’s Rewriting of an Ainu Folk Tale”Kyōko Andō, Otsuma Women’s University
"Leaving Hokkaidō: Gyūniku to bareisho and New Visions for Literature”Young-ah Chung, Princeton University
"New Beginnings, a frontier romance, or Ishikawa Takuboku's encounter with Hokkaidō,” Stephen Forrest, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Bringing Hokkaidō Home: Miyazawa Kenji and the Transposition of ‘Landscape’” Hoyt Long, Bard College
12:15-1:30: Lunch
1:30-3:15: Theorizing “Premodern” Literature"A Buddhist Theory of Bukkyō Bungaku?: Cognitive Theories of Embodiment and Metaphor”Stephen D. Miller, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"The Chrysanthemum and the Gourd: Theorizing the Formation of Literary Identities in Early Modern Japan in the Context of Signets, Seal Marks, and Pseudonyms”Dylan McGee, State University of New York at New Paltz
"Nushi aru kotoba (‘words with owners’) and Other Modes of Authorial Presence in Waka Poetry”Rein Raud, Tallinn University
"Potentiality of Literary Experience: the Role of the Past in Medieval Poetic Theories”Mariko Naito, University of Tokyo
3:30-5:45: Featured Panel: Rethinking Sōseki's Bungakuron: A Centennial CelebrationChair: Joseph Murphy, University of FloridaDiscussant: Brett de Bary, Cornell University
“Owning Up To Sōseki: The Theory of Literature vs. the Theory of Copyright” Michael K. Bourdaghs, University of Chicago
“Sōseki's Psychology of Literature vs. the Imperial Aesthetics of Matthew Arnold”Mark Anderson, University of Minnesota
"Stumbling Past the Threshold of Languages: Natsume Kinnosuke’s Contiguous Space of Language, Literature and Theory”Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
「読者としての漱石」Yūko Iida, Kobe College
6:00-7:00: Keynote Address: Title: TBA, Komori Yōichi
7:00: Reception/Dinner at Prospect House
Sunday, November 4, 2007
8:00-8:30: Coffee and pastries
8:30-10:15: The Ends of Literature"The Language of Mourning: Miyake Kaho’s ‘Shinobugusa'"Timothy J. Van Compernolle, Amherst College
"The Novel and the End of Homosocial Literature” Keith Vincent, Boston University
"On the ‘End’: Mishima Yukio and the Double Dislocation of Literature”Gavin Walker, Cornell University
"Chasing The Tails of Tales: Nakagami Kenji and the End of Folklore”Nina Cornyetz, New York University
10:30-12:15: “Othering” in Literature"Manchukuo and the Creation of a New National Literature: Kawabata Yasunari and ‘Manchurian’ Culture” Annika Culver, Skidmore College
"Mimicry in Japanese Colonial Fiction” Bob Tierney, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Theorizing the House of Unwelcome: Re-reading Yū Miri’s Furu Hausu (Full House, 1995) through Jacques Derrida’s Conception of Hospitality”Catherine Ryu, Michigan State University
"Detecting the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis and Literary Production in Early Twentieth Century Japan”Satoru Saito, Rutgers University
12:15-12:30: Closing Remarks
8:00-8:30: Coffee and Welcoming Remarks
8:30-10:15: The Inside and Outside of Modern Japanese Literature"The Naturalist Novel and the Boundaries of Japanese Literature”Christopher Hill, Yale University
"Hayashi Fusao and the Notion of Historical Impurity” Richard Calichman, City College of New York
"'Colonial’ Fiction and Textual Identity” Edward Mack, University of Washington
"Post-bubble Literary Recovery: Alternate Histories, Light Novels, and Cell Phone Melodramas” Jonathan E. Abel, Bowling Green State University
10:30-12:15: Perspectives on “Modern” Methodologies"Postnationalism and kodai studies? Reading Ancient East Asia after the Critique of Nationalism” Jason Webb, University of Tokyo
"Historicism East and West: the ‘History of Poetry Circles’ in Modern Waka Scholarship”Gian Piero Persiani, Columbia University
"Nativism and Self-Censorship: Negotiating the Boundaries of Literaturein Late-Edo and Early Modern Japan” Patrick Caddeau, Princeton University
“Performance Anxieties, or Hitting on Theory”Dennis Washburn, Dartmouth College
12:15-1:15: Buffet Lunch (Frist Multipurpose Room)
1:15-3:00: Borders and Border-Crossings in Literature and Literary Theory"After a Fall: Who Needs Japanese Literature and Literary Theory?”Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, New York University
"Translating Betrayals and Betraying Translations: Reconceptualizing the Boundaries of Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature” Karen Thornber, Harvard University
"Who holds the whip? Colonial Subjectivity in Chinen Seishin’s The House of Peoples”Davinder Bhowmik, University of Washington
"The European Border of Japanese literature” Teresa Ciapparoni La Rocca, Sapienza Universita` di Roma
3:00-4:20: Strange Bedfellows: Japanese Literature and Queer Theory"Writing the Sexy Samurai: Queer Mobilizations of Historical Paradigms in Interwar Japan” Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan University
"Eroticizing the Other Woman: What Queer Theory Can(not) Tell Us About Japanese Women’s Writing” Julia C. Bullock, Emory University
"Queer/Nation: From ‘Nihon bungaku’ to ‘Nihongo bungaku’”Christopher D. Scott, Macalester College
4:30-6:15: “Politics” and Literature/Art"Kurahara Korehito and the Rhetoric of Utopia” Mats Karlsson, University of Sydney
"Nothing more than a useless luxury: Post-Disaster Literary Theory”Alex Bates, Dickinson College
"Politics of Writing: Nakano Shigeharu’s ‘Tenkō’ Literature” Yukiko Shigeto, University of Washington
"Constitutional and Canonical Revisions: Article 9 and Literature” Ann Sherif, Oberlin College
8:00-9:00: Keynote Address:"The Fate of the Japanese Language in the Age of English” Mizumura Minae
Saturday, November 3, 2007
8:00-8:30: Coffee and Pastries
8:30-10:15: Theorizing Aesthetic and Genre Categories"Frameworks of Meaning: Old Aesthetic Categories and the Present”Michael Marra, University of California Los Angeles
"The Vicissitudes of Drama as a Literary Genre in Meiji/Taishō Debates” M. Cody Poulton, University of Victoria
"The Literary Theory of Shimamura Hōgetsu and the Construction of Japanese Naturalism” Massimiliano Tomasi, Western Washington University
"'Two irreconcilable, but also inseparable, nevertheless incomparable magnitudes’: Mori Ōgai’s parallax reading (and writing) of literary theory” Shion Kono, Sophia University
10:30-12:15: Literature and the Modern Spatial Imaginary: Four Views from Hokkaidō"Cultural Translation and Modern Japanese Children’s Literature: Uno Kōji’s Rewriting of an Ainu Folk Tale”Kyōko Andō, Otsuma Women’s University
"Leaving Hokkaidō: Gyūniku to bareisho and New Visions for Literature”Young-ah Chung, Princeton University
"New Beginnings, a frontier romance, or Ishikawa Takuboku's encounter with Hokkaidō,” Stephen Forrest, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Bringing Hokkaidō Home: Miyazawa Kenji and the Transposition of ‘Landscape’” Hoyt Long, Bard College
12:15-1:30: Lunch
1:30-3:15: Theorizing “Premodern” Literature"A Buddhist Theory of Bukkyō Bungaku?: Cognitive Theories of Embodiment and Metaphor”Stephen D. Miller, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"The Chrysanthemum and the Gourd: Theorizing the Formation of Literary Identities in Early Modern Japan in the Context of Signets, Seal Marks, and Pseudonyms”Dylan McGee, State University of New York at New Paltz
"Nushi aru kotoba (‘words with owners’) and Other Modes of Authorial Presence in Waka Poetry”Rein Raud, Tallinn University
"Potentiality of Literary Experience: the Role of the Past in Medieval Poetic Theories”Mariko Naito, University of Tokyo
3:30-5:45: Featured Panel: Rethinking Sōseki's Bungakuron: A Centennial CelebrationChair: Joseph Murphy, University of FloridaDiscussant: Brett de Bary, Cornell University
“Owning Up To Sōseki: The Theory of Literature vs. the Theory of Copyright” Michael K. Bourdaghs, University of Chicago
“Sōseki's Psychology of Literature vs. the Imperial Aesthetics of Matthew Arnold”Mark Anderson, University of Minnesota
"Stumbling Past the Threshold of Languages: Natsume Kinnosuke’s Contiguous Space of Language, Literature and Theory”Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
「読者としての漱石」Yūko Iida, Kobe College
6:00-7:00: Keynote Address: Title: TBA, Komori Yōichi
7:00: Reception/Dinner at Prospect House
Sunday, November 4, 2007
8:00-8:30: Coffee and pastries
8:30-10:15: The Ends of Literature"The Language of Mourning: Miyake Kaho’s ‘Shinobugusa'"Timothy J. Van Compernolle, Amherst College
"The Novel and the End of Homosocial Literature” Keith Vincent, Boston University
"On the ‘End’: Mishima Yukio and the Double Dislocation of Literature”Gavin Walker, Cornell University
"Chasing The Tails of Tales: Nakagami Kenji and the End of Folklore”Nina Cornyetz, New York University
10:30-12:15: “Othering” in Literature"Manchukuo and the Creation of a New National Literature: Kawabata Yasunari and ‘Manchurian’ Culture” Annika Culver, Skidmore College
"Mimicry in Japanese Colonial Fiction” Bob Tierney, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Theorizing the House of Unwelcome: Re-reading Yū Miri’s Furu Hausu (Full House, 1995) through Jacques Derrida’s Conception of Hospitality”Catherine Ryu, Michigan State University
"Detecting the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis and Literary Production in Early Twentieth Century Japan”Satoru Saito, Rutgers University
12:15-12:30: Closing Remarks