Front Matter, Including an Editors’ Preface by Sharalyn Orbaugh and Joshua S. Mostow

Sharalyn Orbaugh, Editor; Joshua S. Mostow, Editor

「江戸時代の見立（みたて）とパロディ――地口絵本を中心に―」Edo-Period Mitate and Parody: Focusing on Joke Picture-Books

Yamashita Noriko 山下則子

The fire guard and the hired bard: Narushima Ryūhoku’s parodic journalism

Matthew Fraleigh

Playing and parodying the detective in Sōseki’s Higan-sugi made

Keith Vincent

The discourse of noses in Natsume Sōseki’s I am a Cat

Seth Jacobowitz

Parody in the Dōke jōruri-zukushi series by Kuniyoshi

Noriko Brandl; Susanne Formanek, Translator

Spirals of parody: ‘polemical imitation’ in Shusse sugoroku, ningen dōchūzu and other Edo-period woodblock-printed publications on the human life-course

Susanne Formanek

Parodying the parody: the example of ken songs

Sepp Linhart

Mad scientists as translators: Japan’s first adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Miri Nakamura

心霊学というメディアと近代詩 The Media of Occultism and Modern Poetry

野坂昭雄 Nosaka Akio

パロディとしての現代ミステリ Contemporary Mystery as Parody

押野武志 Oshino Takeshi

‘Seeing as’: mitate and parody in haikai linked verse

Jeremy Robinson

Parody and Tokugawa realism: subverting religious and cultural (con)texts in Ejima Kiseki’s Keisei kintanki

Monika Dix

Does vulgarity make parody? The case of Zoku Tsurezuregusa

Linda H. Chance

On parody, appropriation, and ideology in Harunobu’s images of sericulture

Shalmit Bejarano

Breezes through rooms with light: Kanai Mieko by Roland Barthes by Kanai Mieko

Atsuko Sakaki

Tanizaki fights the Watakushi shōsetsu: Kokubyaku as bundan parody

Phyllis I. Lyons

The subversive potential of parody in Danchōtei nichijō, Nagai Kafū's World War II diary

David C. Earhart

Writing along with and against the smugness of writing: Kanai Mieko’s A Study of the Comfortable Life

Tomoko Aoyama

Parody at work: Heathcliff’s double in Mizumura Minae’s Honkakuteki shōsetsu

Eve Zimmerman

Fiction critique parodies and multilayered pastiches: the ‘Relation parodique’ in the works of Ogino Anna and Shimizu Yoshinori

Caterina Mazza

Doubly parodied gender roles in yaoi narratives: male characters become homosexuals who then become ‘women’

Kazumi Nagaike

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