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Literature, Arts, and Cultural Studies (August 2016–July 2017) Japanese Slavic and East European Studies Vol.38. 2017 CHRONICLE I Literature, Arts, and Cultural Studies (August 2016–July 2017) Research presentations * The Japan Association of the Study of Russian Language and Literature (JASRLL: Nihon Roshia Bungakukai) held its 66th Annual Assembly at Hokkaido University (Sapporo City) on Nov. 22 and 23, 2016. The following papers were read: «Гендерные образы в романе “Гнев Диониса” Е. Некрасова» by Sunao Yasuno; «Образ “Я” в романе “Крещеный Китаец” Андрея Белого» by Takashi Matsumoto; “Remizov’s Fiction and Nonfiction” by Hikaru Ogura; «История становления образа коммуниста в романе Ю. Олеши “Зависть”» by Michiko Komiya; «Язык как прикрытие: шахматы и язык в романе “Защита Лужина” В. Набокова» by Naoya Sawa; «Эхо Пушкина в Корее: стихи “Если жизнь тебя обманет...” и парикмахерскиe картинки» by Ji-Eun Sim; «Два портрета: вопрос о моральности в искусстве» by Jhee-Cha Won; «Роль медиа в появле- нии первых музеев им. Л. Н. Толстого: японские материалы в Толстовском музее в Петербурге» by Aleksandr Aleksandrov; «Отблески Андрея Белого в портретах некоторых персонажей Газданова» by Elmira Aleksandrova; «Чу- жие слова как коллаж из “следов” культурной памяти: О художественном методе в “Поэме без героя” Анны Ахматовой» by Tsung-huei Hsiung; “Statues in the Poetry of Joseph Brodsky” by Takehiko Seki; «Ученик чародея: образ футуриста в произведениях Даниила Хармса» by Hiroaki Ozawa; «Числа Флоренского» by Ryoko Yamaguchi; «“Подтекст” в системе Стани славского» by Kensuke Uchida; “The Real Images of Ballets Created by Marius Petipa” by Ku- miko Murayama; «Мысль о музыке В. Ф. Одоевского в начале “Глинкинского периода” — вокруг его отношения с М. И. Глинкой» by Reiya Miura; «Мо- ноопера “Дневник Анны Франк” — “современная музыка”, описывающая девушку в эпоху нацизма» by Kieko Kamitake; «Повествователь эпилога романа “Преступление и наказание” Ф. М. Достоевского» by Saki Tanaka; «Конструкция и составные элементы в “легенде о Великом Инквизиторе” и в романе “Братья Карамазовы”» by Ineko Higuchi; «Духовные наставники молодых нигилистов в творчестве Ф. М. Достоевского» by Naohito Saisu; 99 CHRONICLE «Тема мимесиса (подражание искусства действительности) в творчестве И. А. Бунина 1910-х гг.» by Takako Tago; “The Representation of Southern Russia and Caucasus in the Period of Russian Civil War in Andrei Platonov’s The Innermost Man” by Akira Furukawa; «Собор и музей: о концепции куль- туры О. Мандельштама и А. Сокурова» by Sum-Yung Park; «О выборе ос- новного источника первой книги романа А. Н. Толстого “Петр Первый”» by Anna Akimva; «Советские кино / литературные репрезентации шпио- нажа в конспирологической перспективе» by Valerii Viugin; «Воздушный шар в новой русской литературе» by Tomoyo Kana zawa; «Николай Шпанов и образ первого в советской литературе частного сыщика — Нила Кру- чинина» by Norio Sakanaka; «Произведения А. С. Пушкина после путеше- ствия по Кавказу и Крыму» by Shigeko Horikoshi; «Открытие М. Булгако- ва и О. Мандельштама в СССР» by Vladimir Zhdanov and Junichi Suzuki; «“История советской фантастики” Р. С. Каца. Ее литературное значение и отзвуки» by Hiroaki Umemura; «Иакинф Бичурин и китайская культура» by Chiaki Kuroyanagi; «О историческом сказании “Вещий инок” Шабель- ского-Борка» by Tsutomu Tsukada; «Иконографическая программа первого иконостаса в соборе Воскресения Христова в Токио» by Izumi Miyazaki; and «Опровержение имяславия Митрополитом Антонием (Храповиц- ким): Религиозная мысль “психологизма”» by Kei Watanabe. A workshop «Московский концептуализм: о “начале” его движения и теоризации» was held in which Rieko Kamioka, Enichi Ikuma, Aya Kawamura, and Yuya Suzuki participated; a workshop «Трогать, видеть, слушать: новые подходы к новой литературе (на примере Маканина, Пригова и Алексиевич)» was held in which Tetsuo Mochizuki, Valerii Viugin, Chan Huyn Min, Li Chzhi En, and Go Koshino participated. Journals * Roshiago Roshiabungaku Kenkyū (The Bulletin of the Japanese Association of Russian Scholars), Number 49 (2017), includes the following articles: “A Turn of Breath: Relations with Things in the Collective Actions Group” by Gen’ichi Ikuma; “Numbers of Pavel Florensky: From Pythagorean Numbers to Person- ality” by Ruri Hosokawa; “Two Kinds of ‘Subtexts’ in the Stanislavski System” by Kensuke Uchida; “An Interpretation of Confucianism by Russian Sinologist Hyacinth Bichurin: On His Translation The Religion of Savants” by Chiaki Ku- 100 CHRONICLE royanagi; “Humility in the Teachings of the 18th Century Saint Tikhon Zadon- sky and the Problem of Stavrogin’s Salvation in Dostoyevsky’s Novel Demons” by Naohito Saisu; “On the Choice of the Main Source of the First Book of A. N. Tolstoy’s Peter I” by Anna Akimova; “Void and State: The View on Nationalism in the Novels of Victor Perevin” by Hiroshi Sasayama. Books * Kondo, Masao, Nobuaki Kaku, Manami Kashimoto, Esuke Takada, and Michiyo Arai. The Narrative Space of Russia. Tokyo: Suisei Sha, Apr. 2017. * Wakabayashi, Yu. Russian Revolution in Satires and Anecdotes. Tokyo: Gendai Shokan, Oct. 2017. * Kameyama, Ikuo, and Mitsuyoshi Numano. The Mystery of the Hundred Years of Russian Revolution. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Oct. 2017. * Nakamura, Yoshikazu, Mitsuo Naganawa, Kazuhiko Sawada, and Petr Po- dalko. Living on an Alien Soil. IV. The Footsteps of Émigré Russians in Japan. Tokyo: Seibun Sha, Sept. 2016. * Mochizuki, Tsuneko. Reading Chekhov’s “The Valley.” Tokyo: Nauka, Apr. 2016. * Nonaka, Susumu, Hiroko Momiuchi, and Kyoko Numano, eds. Japanese Lite­ rature in the World; In the Education of Literature in the Former Soviet Countries. Urawa: The Institute of Human Sciences. The University of Saitama, June, 2016. * Takahashi, Seiichiro. The Nostalgia for Press: Shiki Masaoka and “Clouds on the Hill.” Tokyo: Jinmon Shoin, Nov. 2015. * Numano, Mitsuyoshi. Anton Chekhov: Seven­Tenth Despair and Three­ Tenth Hope. Tokyo: Kodan Sha, Jan. 2016. * Norimatsu, Kyohei. Russia or the Apparition of the Opposition: Postmodernity of the Second World. Tokyo: Kodan sha, Dec. 2015. (Takayuki Yokota­Murakami) Linguistics (December 2016–November 2017) Conferences * At the Annual Research Meeting of the Japan Society for the Study of Slavic Languages and Literatures, held at the University of Tokyo on March 21, 2017, the following two papers were presented: “The Formation and Spread of Mod- 101 CHRONICLE ern Literary Belorussian and the Problem of Language Purification” by Shiori Kiyosawa; “The Completion of PDIC Czech-Japanese Digital Dictionary and the Possibility of an Integrated Digital Dictionary of Slavic Languages: Realization of the Dream” by Tatsuo Ishikawa. * At the Annual Symposium of the Japan Society for the Study of Slavic Lan- guages and Literatures, held at Sophia University in Tokyo on June 17, 2017, titled “Baltic Languages and their Neighbors: Problems in Contact of Ethnic Groups and Languages,” the following four papers were presented: “Multilingual- ism in Lithuania: In Comparison with the Latvian Situation” by Eiko Sakurai; “Belarusians in Baltic Countries and Their Language” by Shiori Kiyosawa; and “Turkic Languages as Minority Languages in Balto-Slavic Countries: With Spe- cial Reference to the Karaim and the Gagauz Languages” by Yū Kuribayashi; “Language Contacts and Language Changes in Baltic Rim Countries” by Keiko Mitani. Additionally, two special lectures were given: “Attitudes Toward For- eign Languages in the Baltic States: The Case of the Education Sector” by Ineta Dabašinskienė; and “Slavic Perspective Expressions in an Interdisciplinary Age” by Olga T. Yokoyama. * At the 154th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, held at Tokyo Metropolitan University on June 24–25, 2017, a paper titled “Word Formation and the Opposition of Hard-Soft Consonants in Polish,” was presented by Naoya Watanabe. At a workshop named “Linguistics of Possession: To Have, or Not to Have,” a paper titled “The Relationship between a Whole and Parts Expressed by Possession and Existential Constructions in Czech” by Kenshiro Asaoka, was presented. Additionally, at the poster session, a presentation titled “Phonological Condition of Vowel Fronting in Common Slavonic,” was made by Yūsuke Ōyama. * At the 67th Annual Assembly of the Japan Association for the Study of Rus- sian Language and Literature (JASRLL), held at Sophia University in Tokyo on October 14–15, 2017, the following nine papers were presented at the section meetings for linguistics and language education: «О существительных, кото- рые называют людей и имеют родовые пары в русском языке» by Asuka Mitsui; «Лексические (словообразовательные) и грамматические способы выражения идеи ПРЕДЕЛА ДЕЙСТВИЯ в русском и японском языках» by Yuriko Kaneko; «Стихотворения как дидактический материал для по- становки произношения и интонации у японских студентов» by Svetlana Latysheva; «Языковые особенности в автографе Пахомия Серба (Логофета): 102 CHRONICLE на материале “Жития Сергия Радонежского”» by Yukiko Maruyama; «Ак- центовки и их стилистические функции в “Житии протопопа Аввакума”» by Tadanobu Аoyama; «Отсутствие чередования беглых гласных в парадиг- ме» by Naoya Watanabe; «Условия употребления возвратного притяжатель- ного местоимения “свой”, стоящего в обстоятельстве и имеющего своим ан- тецедентом предложно-падежную форму “у+род”» by Yuki Nakano; «Анализ употребления обращений в русском языке с точки зрения “Вежливости” П. Брауна и С. Левинстона» by Tomo Higashide; «Русско-японский словарь в архиве монастыря Зограф на Святой Горе Афон» by Yoshinori Onda. Also, a panel
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