... to collaborate with him by writing poems in response to sheets of calligraphic marks, Ingmire then produces highly artistic, calligraphic versions of the poems. In the example I discuss, the poem was then produced as an artist’s book by a Japanese artist using ancient paper-folding and bookmaking techniques...

...-Negrón Luis Manuel Minervini Laura . 2006 . Las Coplas de Yosef: Entre la Biblia y el Midrash en la Poesía Judeoespañola . Madrid : Gredos . Guo Nanyan . 2013 . Bairingaru na Nihongo Bungaku . Tokyo : Sangensha . Kato Shuichi . 1997 . A History of Japanese Literature...

...-phonetic) and Japanese (pri- marily ideographic-visual) poetry. Two ancillary arguments arise from her analysis: a refutation of the Saussurean idea that language is primarily non-iconic and arbitrary and the need for more attention to be paid to the iconicity of character (logographic...

... (New York: Simon and Schuster). Motokiyu, Tosa, Ojiu Norinaga, and Okura Kyojin, eds. 1991 “Renga and the New Sentence,” Aerial 6 /7: 52 . 1997 Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada (New York: Roof). Nussbaum, Emily 1996 “Turning Japanese: The Hiroshima Poetry Hoax...

...—home for them is the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis—this identity func- tions as unmarked, by contrast to other characters in the novel, who are Japanese or European.14 The cowboys’ very blandness...

... -316. Herman, David 1994 “Hypothetical Focalization,” Narrative 2 (3): 230 -53. Jencks, Charles 1987 “Postmodern and Late Modern: The Essential Definitions,” Chicago Review 35 (4): 31 -58. Johnson, Deborah 1982 “Japanese Prints in Europe before 1840,” Burlington Magazine 124...

... (Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Studies) Conference (Lund,March 2015). I would like to thank the audience and the convenors for their comments, particularly Pekka Korhonen, TyranGrillo, YuliyaOsadcha, EwaMachotka, Silvia Rivadossi, BenjaminGiroux, and Ge´rald Peloux. My special...

... Research Fellow in Japanese Studies at Pembroke College, University of Oxford (2017 18). He is currently working on a monograph on Mishima and the reader. Kevin Potter is a lecturer and doctoral student in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna. His dissertation...

... sec- tion of the American wartime public. This accounts for the composition of the image, in which the massive figure of the GI looms over the prone and slight figure of the Japanese, whose body leads the eye toward further corpses lying in the sand and, finally, to the open door of the landing...

... family was attempting to move their zoo from India to Canada. He is improb- ably trapped on a lifeboat with several wild animals, including a Bengal tiger. Martel uses painstaking detail to explain how Pi avoids becoming food for Richard Parker, the tiger. At the end Pi is rescued by a Japanese boat...

... narrates the experiences of Japanese picture brides in the United States. Bekhta utilizes Phelan's ( 2005 ) notion of lyric progression to explain the curiously static effect of the narrative. The novel is also emblematic of we-narrative's common strategy of balancing an overall communal identity...

... Criticism (1967 [1926]: 88). We exemplify this by using Richards’s pedagogic technique of decomposing the gestalt of a poetic text in an empiri- cal study focused on haiku poetry in both its original Japanese and its modern- ist form. Practical Criticism: In this section, we explicate...

...: An Integrative Account .” Japanese Psychological Research 45 , no. 4 : 250 – 68 . Hynds Susan . 1989 . “ Bringing Life to Literature and Literature to Life: Social Constructs and Contexts of Four Adolescent Readers .” Research in the Teaching of English 23 , no. 1 : 30 – 61 . Igartua...

..., rather than to explore their own ideas and thoughts about the text. “Convenience Store Woman” is a modern Japanese short story about a young, single woman in her mid-thirties whose life is limited to the drugstore where she has been working and living for the past eighteen years, trying to escape...

... the historian has made, the most basic being about ways of treating the two main fronts of Europe and Asia. Weinberg switches at times from one to the other, going, for example, from “The Eastern Front and a Changing War” to “Halting the Japanese Advance” and from “The Final Assault on Germany” to “The War...

... and picture com- pose in the verbal text because of their visual similarity. The world reads as art-like. On such an “iconic” basis, for instance, a poem “projects a Japanese pictorial structure onto the blond Scandinavian landscape” (ibid.: 39). In discussing this example, it so happens, Lund (ibid...

... be right for a particular linguistic case, namely, “practical” language, but ignorance of the differences between the laws of practical and poetic language led to the idea of economy being applied to the latter. When the Japanese poetic language was found to contain sounds never used in practical...

... talking with him about that which occupies us both po-eh- try and within po-eh-try the moments that are for us the first of the beginning and rebeginning the moments of the songs of the troubadours and the moments of the ancient japanese voice that merge and mix equally even thousands...

... on how cultural stereotypes bias the reading of stories, especially the protagonist’s character: they confronted German readers with a Grimm brothers fairy tale that was presented once as of Italian and once as of Japanese origin. The remaining essays in this part deal...

... and once as of Japanese origin. The remaining essays in this part deal with the influence of readers’ values, personality, or gender on their perceptions. In the context of the present-day religious terrorism, Robert D. Ridge and Colin W. Key demonstrate the influence...