<p> Compiled January 2005; rev. 02/2005, 09/2005, 10/2005</p><p>Japanese Literature Graduate Reading List</p><p>[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.]</p><p>Classical Literature</p><p>Brower, Robert and Earl Miner. Japanese Court Poetry. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1961.</p><p>Lamarre, Thomas. Uncovering Heian Japan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.</p><p>Okada, H. Richard. Figures of Resistance. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991.</p><p>Shirane, Haruo. The Bridge of Dreams. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987.</p><p>Medieval Literature</p><p>Marra, Michele. The Aesthetics of Discontent. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991.</p><p>Pollack, David. The Fracture of Meaning. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.</p><p>Edo (Early Modern) Literature</p><p>Drake, Christopher. “Mirroring Saikaku.” Monumenta Nipponica 46: 4 (Winter 1991), pp. 513-541.</p><p>Gerstle, C. Andrew. Circles of Fantasy: Convention in the Plays of Chikamatsu. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, 1986.</p><p>Keene, Donald. World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-modern Era 1600-1867. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1976.</p><p>Nishiyama Matsunosuke; Gerald Groemer trans. & ed. Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600—1868. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.</p><p>Shirane, Haruo, ed. Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.</p><p>Shirane, Haruo. Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashô. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.</p><p>Ueda, Makoto. Bashô and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku with Commentary. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.</p><p>1 Compiled January 2005; rev. 02/2005, 09/2005, 10/2005</p><p>Modern Literature</p><p>Ericson, Joan. Be a Woman: Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Women’s Literature. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.</p><p>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.</p><p>Fowler, Edward. The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishôsetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.</p><p>Fujii, James. Complicit Fictions: the Subject in the Modern Japanese Prose Narrative. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.</p><p>Karatani Kôjin. Origins of Modern Japanese Literature. Trans. & ed. by Brett de Bary. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993.</p><p>Keene, Donald. Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era. 2 vols. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984.</p><p>Miyoshi, Masao. Accomplices of Silence: the Modern Japanese Novel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.</p><p>Miyoshi, Masao. Off-Center: Power and Culture Relations between Japan and the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.</p><p>Rimer, J. Thomas. Modern Japanese Fiction and Its Traditions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.</p><p>Ueda, Makoto. Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1983.</p><p>Ueda, Makoto. Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1976.</p><p>General </p><p>Shirane, Haruo and Tomi Suzuki, eds. Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.</p><p>2</p>