Genres and Genre Theories in Japanese Literature
PAJLS Vol. 24 - 2024
Luciana Sanga and Mary Gilstad, Editors
Luciana Sanga and Mary Gilstad, Editors
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Editors’ Foreword
Luciana Sanga and Mary Gilstad.............. iv
Keynote Address
Some Thoughts on Genre
Fujino Kaori............... 3
Individual Papers
The [F]utility of Genre
Linda H. Chance............. 15
Genealogies of Poetry: Organizational Genres in the Ōtomo Volumes of Man’yōshū
Danica Truscott............. 25
A Future of Disorder: The Intertextuality of the Fantastic in the Taiheiki
Jeremy Sather............. 41
Genji monogatari, the Sōgi Cut: Behind the Scenes of the nukigaki Text Shijin gushō (Lavender Dust: A Personal Collection)
Jeffrey Knott............. 52
Genre-Fusion in Ihara Saikaku’s “He Commanded a Massage in a Haunted House”
David J. Gundry............. 68
Imaging the Educated Citizen: Re-ordering of Knowledge in Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Pedagogical Science Writing
Daniel Penner............. 77
Same Genre, Different Registers: Twentieth -Century Japanese Translations of a Sanskrit Buddhist Story
John Bundschuh............. 91
Negotiating the Japanese Bildungsroman: Reading Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s “To Shishun”
Jiayu Gui........... 104
Shōjo Texts and Magazine Contexts: Reading Yoshiya Nobuko’s “Sweet Pea”
Francesca Pizarro........... 117
The Defiance of Genre in Nagase Kiyoko’s Verse
Barbara Hartley........... 128
Genre’d Verse: Shiraishi Kazuko and Jazz Poetry
Alexander Murphy........... 146
Rethinking Genre in Holocaust-Themed Shōjo Manga
Ben Whaley........... 155
The Writers “Linguistically Unhoused”: Exploring Japanese Literary Genres beyond Kokubungaku
Justyna Weronika Kasza........... 167
Re-imagining Disasters Across Literary Genres: From Post- 3.11 Literature to Pollution Literature
Yuki Nagamine........... 183
Roundtable Conversation
Japanese Genres, Translation, and the Literary Market
Fujino Kaori, Kendall Heitzman
Rosa van Hensbergen, Hitomi Yoshio........... 199
About the Contributors 209