Parody
University of British Columbia
August 19 - 21, 2008
PROGRAM
Tuesday, August 19
9:00―10:30“The Naturalist Novel and the Boundaries of Japanese Literature”Christopher Hill, Yale University
“Redefining Haikai as Parody”Scott Lineberger, Beloit College
“‘Seeing As’—Mitate and Parody in haikai linked verse”Jeremy Robinson, Washington and Lee University
“Parody and Tokugawa Realism: Subverting Religious and Cultural (Con)Texts in Ejima Kiseki’s Keisei kintanki” Monika Dix, University of Hawaii at Manoa
“Does Vulgarity Make Parody? The Case of ZokuTsurezuregusa” Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania
10:30―10:45 Coffee Break
10:45―12:00 Writing Parody in Meiji Japan“The Fire Guard and the Hired Bard: Narushima Ryūhoku’s parodic journalism”Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis University
“Playing and Parodying the Detective in Sōseki’s Higan-sugi made”Keith Vincent, Boston University
“The Discourse of Noses in Natsume Sōseki’s I am a Cat”Seth Jacobowitz, San Francisco State University
12:00―1:30 Lunch
1:30―2:45“Crime and Punishment and Hakai: Imitation with Critical Differences?” Sayuri Oyama, Sarah Lawrence College
“Between Individual and Imperial in Taishō Japan: Parody in Satō Haruo’s ‘Fingerprints’”Charles Exley, University of Montana (Missoula)
“Tanizaki Fights the Watakushi Shōsetsu: Kokubyaku as Parody”Phyllis Lyons, Northwestern University
“Unbinding Genre, Performing Writing: Narrating from Kura no naka”Young-ah Chung, Princeton University
2:45―3:00 Coffee Break
3:00―4:30“Making Parodic Sense of Ero-Guro Nansensu: Edogawa Rampo’s Insect Narratives”Mary Knighton, The University of Tokyo
“Takahashi Gen'ichirō and Miyazawa Kenji's Greatest Hits: Parody as Homage”Michael Tangemen, Denison University
“Parody Killed the Cat: Re-Opening the Case of Natsume Sōseki’s Wagahai wa neko de aru” Sari Kawana, University of Massachusetts Boston
“The Subversive Potential of Parodic Intertextuality in Nagai Kafū’s Antihistory of World War II” David Earhart, University of Montana
Dinner with Keynote“Edo jidai no parody to mitate” 江戸時代のパロディと見立Yamashita Noriko 山下則子, National Institute for Japanese Literature 国文学研究資料館
Wednesday, August 20
9:00―10:30: Probing Parodies in Edo Literature, Drama, and Public Storytelling“Nise Murasaki inaka Genji: What’s Parody Got to Do With It?” Michael Emmerich, University of California (Santa Barbara)
“Parody, Performance, and Poetry: The Narukami Cycle and the Six Poets”Charo D’Etcheverry, University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Baba Bunkō: Parody as Social and Political Dissent in Early Modern Japan”William Farge, Georgetown University
10:30―10:45 Coffee Break
10:45―12:00“Parodying the Censor and Censoring Parody” Kirsten Cather, University of Texas (Austin)
“Mitation of Life: Anime Realism and the ‘Disney Effect’"Carole Cavanaugh, Middlebury College
“From parody to simulacrum: Japanese SF, regionalism, and the inauthentic in the early works of Komatsu Sakyō and Tsutsui Yasutaka” William Gardner, Swarthmore College
12:00―1:30 Lunch
1:30―2:45“The Tale of Genji; Picturing and parodies” Shin'ichi Aoki, Rikkyo University
“A parody of a samurai hunting party: the ‘Saru ga inoshishi kari’, a mid-Edo period emakimono in the Chiossone Museum of Genoa” Donatella Failla, Museo d'Arte Giapponese "Edoardo Chiossone"
“Parody and Identity: Examining Values in Japanized Images of Sericulture,”Shalmit Bejarano, University of Pittsburgh
2:45―3:00 Coffee Break
3:00―4:15 Verbal/Visual Parody Interplays in Late Edo-period Woodblock Prints“Parody as Hidden Political Satire: Kuniyoshi’s ‘Dōke jōruri-zukushi’”Noriko Brandl, Institut fur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
“Spirals of Parody: ‘Critical Imitation’ in Shusse Sugoroku, Ningen Dōchūzu and Other Edo-period Woodblock-printed Publications on the Human Life-course” Susanne Formanek, Institut fur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
“Parodying the parody: The example of ken songs” Sepp Linhart, Institut fur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
4:15―4:30 Coffee Break
4:30―6:00 What You See Is What You Want: Intervention of Text in the Space Within and Beyond the Frame“Casting Stones: Imperial Portraits and Parody in Ōe Kenzaburō’s Seventeen”Bruce Suttmeier, Penn State University
“Breezes through Rooms with Light: Kanai Mieko by Roland Barthes by Kanai Mieko”Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
“Parody of Reading: Coloniality and the Inscription of Modernity in Japanese Cinema”Timothy Iles, University of Victoria
“Mise en portable: Penetrating the Frames of Cell Phone Novels”Jonathan E. Abel, Bowling Green State University
Dinner
Thursday, August 21
9:00―10:30 Murdering the Original—Corpses and Translations in Modern Japanese Literature“Parodying Mad Science in Meiji Monster Narratives”Miri Nakamura, Wesleyan University
“Detectives Standing Still: The Sherlock Holmeses of the Meiji Period”Yoshida Morio, Kōgakuin University
“The Media of Occultism and Modern Poetry”Nosaka Akio, Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture
“Contemporary Mystery as Parody”Oshino Takeshi, Hokkaido University
10:30―10:45 Coffee Break
10:45―12:00“Writing along with and against the Smugness of Writing: Kanai Mieko’s A Study of Comfortable Life” Tomoko Aoyama, University of Queensland
“Uncanny Parody: Heathcliff’s Double in Mizumura Minae’s Honkakuteki shōsetsu”Eve Zimmerman, Wellesley College
“‘Fiction critique’ parodies and multilayered pastiches: the ‘relation parodique’ in the works of Ogino Anna and Shimizu Yoshinori”Caterina Mazza, Ca’ Foscari University
12:00―1:00 Lunch
1:00―2:15“For Japanese Women Poets, Parody Is Their Strategy to Survive: Reading Parodic Poetry of Shiraishi Kazuko, Horiba Kiyoko, and Ibaragi Noriko”Mano Takako, Josai International University
“Doubly Parodied Gender Roles in Yaoi Narratives: Male Characters Become Homosexuals, Who then Become ‘Women’” Kazumi Nagaike, Oita University
“The Parody of Oyayubi P” Joanne Quimby, Indiana University
2:15―2:30 Coffee Break
2:15―2:30 Wrap-up
Tuesday, August 19
9:00―10:30“The Naturalist Novel and the Boundaries of Japanese Literature”Christopher Hill, Yale University
“Redefining Haikai as Parody”Scott Lineberger, Beloit College
“‘Seeing As’—Mitate and Parody in haikai linked verse”Jeremy Robinson, Washington and Lee University
“Parody and Tokugawa Realism: Subverting Religious and Cultural (Con)Texts in Ejima Kiseki’s Keisei kintanki” Monika Dix, University of Hawaii at Manoa
“Does Vulgarity Make Parody? The Case of ZokuTsurezuregusa” Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania
10:30―10:45 Coffee Break
10:45―12:00 Writing Parody in Meiji Japan“The Fire Guard and the Hired Bard: Narushima Ryūhoku’s parodic journalism”Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis University
“Playing and Parodying the Detective in Sōseki’s Higan-sugi made”Keith Vincent, Boston University
“The Discourse of Noses in Natsume Sōseki’s I am a Cat”Seth Jacobowitz, San Francisco State University
12:00―1:30 Lunch
1:30―2:45“Crime and Punishment and Hakai: Imitation with Critical Differences?” Sayuri Oyama, Sarah Lawrence College
“Between Individual and Imperial in Taishō Japan: Parody in Satō Haruo’s ‘Fingerprints’”Charles Exley, University of Montana (Missoula)
“Tanizaki Fights the Watakushi Shōsetsu: Kokubyaku as Parody”Phyllis Lyons, Northwestern University
“Unbinding Genre, Performing Writing: Narrating from Kura no naka”Young-ah Chung, Princeton University
2:45―3:00 Coffee Break
3:00―4:30“Making Parodic Sense of Ero-Guro Nansensu: Edogawa Rampo’s Insect Narratives”Mary Knighton, The University of Tokyo
“Takahashi Gen'ichirō and Miyazawa Kenji's Greatest Hits: Parody as Homage”Michael Tangemen, Denison University
“Parody Killed the Cat: Re-Opening the Case of Natsume Sōseki’s Wagahai wa neko de aru” Sari Kawana, University of Massachusetts Boston
“The Subversive Potential of Parodic Intertextuality in Nagai Kafū’s Antihistory of World War II” David Earhart, University of Montana
Dinner with Keynote“Edo jidai no parody to mitate” 江戸時代のパロディと見立Yamashita Noriko 山下則子, National Institute for Japanese Literature 国文学研究資料館
Wednesday, August 20
9:00―10:30: Probing Parodies in Edo Literature, Drama, and Public Storytelling“Nise Murasaki inaka Genji: What’s Parody Got to Do With It?” Michael Emmerich, University of California (Santa Barbara)
“Parody, Performance, and Poetry: The Narukami Cycle and the Six Poets”Charo D’Etcheverry, University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Baba Bunkō: Parody as Social and Political Dissent in Early Modern Japan”William Farge, Georgetown University
10:30―10:45 Coffee Break
10:45―12:00“Parodying the Censor and Censoring Parody” Kirsten Cather, University of Texas (Austin)
“Mitation of Life: Anime Realism and the ‘Disney Effect’"Carole Cavanaugh, Middlebury College
“From parody to simulacrum: Japanese SF, regionalism, and the inauthentic in the early works of Komatsu Sakyō and Tsutsui Yasutaka” William Gardner, Swarthmore College
12:00―1:30 Lunch
1:30―2:45“The Tale of Genji; Picturing and parodies” Shin'ichi Aoki, Rikkyo University
“A parody of a samurai hunting party: the ‘Saru ga inoshishi kari’, a mid-Edo period emakimono in the Chiossone Museum of Genoa” Donatella Failla, Museo d'Arte Giapponese "Edoardo Chiossone"
“Parody and Identity: Examining Values in Japanized Images of Sericulture,”Shalmit Bejarano, University of Pittsburgh
2:45―3:00 Coffee Break
3:00―4:15 Verbal/Visual Parody Interplays in Late Edo-period Woodblock Prints“Parody as Hidden Political Satire: Kuniyoshi’s ‘Dōke jōruri-zukushi’”Noriko Brandl, Institut fur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
“Spirals of Parody: ‘Critical Imitation’ in Shusse Sugoroku, Ningen Dōchūzu and Other Edo-period Woodblock-printed Publications on the Human Life-course” Susanne Formanek, Institut fur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
“Parodying the parody: The example of ken songs” Sepp Linhart, Institut fur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
4:15―4:30 Coffee Break
4:30―6:00 What You See Is What You Want: Intervention of Text in the Space Within and Beyond the Frame“Casting Stones: Imperial Portraits and Parody in Ōe Kenzaburō’s Seventeen”Bruce Suttmeier, Penn State University
“Breezes through Rooms with Light: Kanai Mieko by Roland Barthes by Kanai Mieko”Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
“Parody of Reading: Coloniality and the Inscription of Modernity in Japanese Cinema”Timothy Iles, University of Victoria
“Mise en portable: Penetrating the Frames of Cell Phone Novels”Jonathan E. Abel, Bowling Green State University
Dinner
Thursday, August 21
9:00―10:30 Murdering the Original—Corpses and Translations in Modern Japanese Literature“Parodying Mad Science in Meiji Monster Narratives”Miri Nakamura, Wesleyan University
“Detectives Standing Still: The Sherlock Holmeses of the Meiji Period”Yoshida Morio, Kōgakuin University
“The Media of Occultism and Modern Poetry”Nosaka Akio, Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture
“Contemporary Mystery as Parody”Oshino Takeshi, Hokkaido University
10:30―10:45 Coffee Break
10:45―12:00“Writing along with and against the Smugness of Writing: Kanai Mieko’s A Study of Comfortable Life” Tomoko Aoyama, University of Queensland
“Uncanny Parody: Heathcliff’s Double in Mizumura Minae’s Honkakuteki shōsetsu”Eve Zimmerman, Wellesley College
“‘Fiction critique’ parodies and multilayered pastiches: the ‘relation parodique’ in the works of Ogino Anna and Shimizu Yoshinori”Caterina Mazza, Ca’ Foscari University
12:00―1:00 Lunch
1:00―2:15“For Japanese Women Poets, Parody Is Their Strategy to Survive: Reading Parodic Poetry of Shiraishi Kazuko, Horiba Kiyoko, and Ibaragi Noriko”Mano Takako, Josai International University
“Doubly Parodied Gender Roles in Yaoi Narratives: Male Characters Become Homosexuals, Who then Become ‘Women’” Kazumi Nagaike, Oita University
“The Parody of Oyayubi P” Joanne Quimby, Indiana University
2:15―2:30 Coffee Break
2:15―2:30 Wrap-up