Japanese Literature Graduate Reading List Work in Progress

Compiled January 2005; rev. 02/2005, 09/2005, 10/2005

Japanese Literature Graduate Reading List

[Note: (1) This is a work in progress. (2) This is a “core” list. Each committee must add to this list, to prepare a full reading list appropriate to each student.]

Classical Literature

Brower, Robert and Earl Miner. Japanese Court Poetry. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1961.

Lamarre, Thomas. Uncovering Heian Japan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.

Okada, H. Richard. Figures of Resistance. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991.

Shirane, Haruo. The Bridge of Dreams. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987.

Medieval Literature

Marra, Michele. The Aesthetics of Discontent. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991.

Pollack, David. The Fracture of Meaning. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Edo (Early Modern) Literature

Drake, Christopher. “Mirroring Saikaku.” Monumenta Nipponica 46: 4 (Winter 1991), pp. 513-541.

Gerstle, C. Andrew. Circles of Fantasy: Convention in the Plays of Chikamatsu. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, 1986.

Keene, Donald. World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-modern Era 1600-1867. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1976.

Nishiyama Matsunosuke; Gerald Groemer trans. & ed. Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600—1868. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.

Shirane, Haruo, ed. Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Shirane, Haruo. Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashô. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Ueda, Makoto. Bashô and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku with Commentary. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.

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Modern Literature

Ericson, Joan. Be a Woman: Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Women’s Literature. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.

Ericson, Joan. “The Origin of the Concept of ‘Women’s Literature.’” In Schalow, Paul Gordon and Janet A. Walker, eds. The Woman’s Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women’s Writing. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996.

Fowler, Edward. The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishôsetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Fujii, James. Complicit Fictions: the Subject in the Modern Japanese Prose Narrative. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Karatani Kôjin. Origins of Modern Japanese Literature. Trans. & ed. by Brett de Bary. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993.

Keene, Donald. Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era. 2 vols. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984.

Miyoshi, Masao. Accomplices of Silence: the Modern Japanese Novel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

Miyoshi, Masao. Off-Center: Power and Culture Relations between Japan and the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Rimer, J. Thomas. Modern Japanese Fiction and Its Traditions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.

Ueda, Makoto. Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1983.

Ueda, Makoto. Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1976.

General

Shirane, Haruo and Tomi Suzuki, eds. Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.