Front Matter, including Introduction: the hermeneutical challenge

Michael F. Marra

Reading the maternal body in the works of Hirabayashi Taiko

Linda Flores

Women who ‘hate’ women and other feminist problems in the literature of Takahashi Takako

Julia C. Bullock

Japanese female writers watch a boy being beaten by his father: female fantasies of male homosexuality, psychoanalysis, and sexuality

Kazumi Nagaike

Pillaging theory: feminist readings of Japanese texts

Rebecca Copeland

How housewives shatter a narrative: Tawada Yōko’s The Bridegroom Was a Dog

Robin Tierney

Issues of postcolonial theories in Zainichi literature: hybridity and mimicry in Tachihara Masaaki’s Tsurugigasaki and Tsumugi no Sato

Yoshiko Matsuura

Zainichi literature through a Lacanian gaze: the case of Yi Yang-Ji’s Yuhi

Catherine Ryu

Shōjo and Yamanba: Mori Mari’s literature

Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase

The hermeneutics of transgression and gender: a female modernist in chaos (gendered place)

Kiyomi Eguro

Shinjuku as ‘ikai:’ Levy Hideo’s Seijōki no kikoenai heya

Kōji Satō

The fiction and criticism of Sakaguchi Ango: the rhetoric of ambivalence

Takeshi Oshino

Shinseinen, the contract, and vernacular modernism in Japan

Kyoko Ōmori

Miyazawa Kenji and the ethics of scientific realism

Gregory Golley

The problem of aesthetics in Nishida Kitarō

Matteo Cestari

What if God never existed? Some thoughts on Kawabata, texts and criticism

Matthew Mizenko

The author, the reader, and Japanese literary texts: returning poststructuralist intertextuality to its dialogic roots

Timothy J. Van Compernolle

Materializing narratology: Kanai Mieko’s corporeal narrative

Atsuko Sakaki

Pictured landscapes: Kawara no in, Heian gardens and poetic imagination

Ivo Smits

Beyond wa-kan: narrating kanshi, reception, and sociolects of poetry

Jason Webb

Beyond our grasp? Materiality, meta-genre and meaning in the po(e)ttery of Rengetsu-ni

Sayumi Takahashi

Whether birds or monkeys: indefinite reference and pragmatic presupposition in reading waka

Gian Piero Persiani

Dramatizing figures: the revitalization and expansion of metaphors in nō

Akiko Takeuchi

Compilation as commentary: the two imperial anthologies of Nijō Tameyo

Stefania Burk

Little Atsumori and the Tale of the Heike: fiction as commentary, and the significance of a name

R. Keller Kimbrough

Lifting the curse: Genji tributes as fictional criticism

Charo D’Etcheverry

Accessorizing the text: the role of commentary in the creation of readers

Linda H. Chance

In search of the absolute origin: hermeneutics of language in Ogyū Sorai

Aiko Okamoto MacPhail

Memoirs and the metaphorical miscegenation: the literary activities of Hijikata Tatsumi

Bruce Baird

Pleasures of permutation: detective fiction and cultural globalization

Sari Kawana

Writing the political not just the personal in Tamura’s Shōwa period fiction

Anne Sokolsky

Archiving the forbidden: tracing exteriors to graphs of banned books

Jonathan Abel

The historical horizon of true art: Kafū and Okakura at the 1904 St.Louis world’s fair

Miya Mizuta Lippit

西田幾多郎の哲学と日本語 Nishida Kitarō’s Philosophy and Japanese Language

藤田正勝 Fujita Masakatsu

本歌取りの位地－剽窃とオリジナリティの間 The Position of Allusive Variation: Between Plagiarism and Originality

松村雄二 Matsumura Yūji

Problems on interpretation in the age of databases

Hisashi Muroi

Good karma, bad karma, words and deeds

William R. LaFleur

Back Matter, including “About Contributors”

Michael F. Marra