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Japanese Literary Theories: An Anthology is the English translation of the 2017 volume edited by Yasusuke ¿ura (Nihon Bungaku Riron: Ansorojii), which grew from a unique collaboration between scholars of Western literatures and scholars of modern Japanese literature. Its eight thematic chapters on various aspects of literary theory each contain excerpts from representative texts by Japanese intellectuals, discussed against the background of Japan's ongoing negotiations with foreign ideas. The anthology offers a comprehensive image of the development of Japanese literary theories, from the beginning of the Meiji period in 1868 and up to the present day. The translation of this anthology, another collaborative project, brings to the English-speaking reader heretofore untranslated pieces by Japanese critics, scholars, and creative writers, providing a point of entry into a variety of intellectual discourses from modern and contemporary Japan. It enriches the repertoire of literary theories available in English, while shedding light on the ways in which literature and literary theory travel back and forth within various linguistic spheres, serving as central loci of intellectual negotiation.
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Introduction
Irina HolcaChapter 1: Theories of The Novel
Yasusuke ¿ura and Tomoe Nakamura/ Tr. Gregory KhezrnejatChapter 2: Theories of Description
Akihiro Kubo and Tomoe Nakamura/ Tr. Erin L. Brightwell and Irina HolcaChapter 3: Theories of Narrative
Manabu Kawada, Kayo Sasao, and Atsuko Nishikawa/ Tr. Yoshitaka Yamamoto and Roman PäcaChapter 4: Theories of Poetic Language
Masahiro Iwamatsu, Sh¿ Sait¿, and Tomoe Nakamura/ Tr. Yoshitaka YamamotoChapter 5: Theories of Fiction
Hiroshi Iijima, Naoko Kitamura Iwamatsu, and Yoshiki Hidaka/ Tr. Gregory Khezrnejat and Takeshi MorisatoChapter 6: Theories of The Reader
Masahiro Iwamatsu, Akira Kikuchi, and Kayo Sasao/ Tr. Clarence I-Zhuen Lee and Roman PäcaChapter 7: Theories of Origin, Theories of Emergence
Akira Kikuchi, Akihiro Kubo, and Atsuko Nishikawa/ Tr. Andre de Haag and Clarence I-Zhuen LeeChapter 8: What is Literature?
Yasusuke ¿ura and Tomoyuki Nagata/ Tr. Takeshi Morisato
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Irina Holca, editor of the English translation, is associate professor of modern and contemporary Japanese literature at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies/
Yasusuke ¿ura, editor of the Japanese anthology, is a specialist in literary theory and professor emeritus at Kyoto University.
