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Article type: Cover
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages Cover1-
Published: January 10, 2008
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages Cover2-
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Article type: Appendix
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages App1-
Published: January 10, 2008
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Article type: Appendix
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages App2-
Published: January 10, 2008
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Article type: Appendix
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 1-
Published: January 10, 2008
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The Apocryphal Poems of Manyo-shu in Kokin-waka-rokucho(<Special Issue>Information as Literature/Literature as Information)

Noriko Shinzawa

Article type: Article
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 2-11
Published: January 10, 2008
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Kokin-waka-rokucho is an anthology of poems published in the Heian Period. All the poems are thematically collected, and among them are about 1,200 poems from Manyo-shu. But one may notice something strange in the way of selection from the twelfth volume of Manyo-shu. There are extremely fewer poems selected from the volume than those from the other volumes. Moreover they are selected not from the authorized edition of Manyo-shu but from its apocryphal version. It suggests a possibility that the editor did so because the sourcebook were not apocryphal but authorized. In short, there might have been at least two authorized editions of the twelfth volume.

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Letters in Murasaki-Shikibu-nikki : Controlling Information and Controlled Information(<Special Issue>Information as Literature/Literature as Information)

Atsuko Toyama

Article type: Article
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 12-20
Published: January 10, 2008
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The letters in Murasaki-Shikibu-nikki can be regarded as a complex texture of information. The author composes the letters rhetorically enough to first convince the readers to agree with her and then to subtly direct the way they receive information. In this sense the fictional nature of the text lies in its rhetorical manipulation of information. The method is very ironical, for manipulated information not only controls the way the readers read the story but also brings about a new way of storytelling which in turn controls the way the author provides information.

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A Book of Secrets in Circulation : The Transcription and Transmission of Gengo-hiwa(<Special Issue>Information as Literature/Literature as Information)

Masayuki Maeda

Article type: Article
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 21-34
Published: January 10, 2008
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How did books circulate before the rise of a publishing industry? To answer the question here I will give an instance of Gengo-hiwa, a book of secrets written by Ichijo-Kaneyoshi. Kaneyoshi forbade anyone in possession of the book to tell its secrets to others, but very few possessors followed his rule. The great scholars and transcribers of classical literature Sanjonishi-Sanetaka, Hosokawa-Fujitaka, Nakanoin-Michikatsu, Satomura-Joha, and even Kaneyoshi's sons Fuyuyoshi and Ryochin made excuses to leak out and circulate the secrets. In a similar way other books must have circulated in medieval times. Such individual activities eventually helped to form a wide range of readership all over the country and lay the foundation of modern publishing business.

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Melodramatic Media: Reputations, News, and Rumors in Sonezaki-shinju(<Special Issue>Information as Literature/Literature as Information)

Tomoyuki Someya

Article type: Article
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 35-43
Published: January 10, 2008
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Between the Genroku and the Kyoho Periods, when a mature information-oriented society started to be formed in Japan, Chikamatsu-Monzaemon's melodrama Sonezaki-shinju was shown in Osaka, one of the most highly developed information-centered cities. The interaction between literature and such a technological innovation can be found in the melodrama itself, for it worked as a sort of media to cover current events. Indeed, the social and political atmosphere of the age is strongly reflected in what the characters say. Even the meaning of a mysterious character Kuheiji can be understood in the context of social anxiety then caused by the rebellions of the servant class.

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De-Mystification of Literature : Soichi Oya's Journalistic Discourses on Literature(<Special Issue>Information as Literature/Literature as Information)

Satoshi Osawa

Article type: Article
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 44-55
Published: January 10, 2008
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Soichi Oya's work before the war seems to be explicable in the light of the information theory. He did his critical work through the following three procedures: 1. the arrangement of literary works in the way of data-processing; 2. a structuralist description of the principle of literary creation; 3. a definition of literature as an information commodity. In such a materialistic and journalistic way of criticism, Oya was engaged in de-mystifying literature. Different from Hideo Kobayashi's critical theory or proletarian literary criticism, his method is very unique in the history of literary criticism.

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Confiscated Japanese Books in the US Library of Congress : A Literary Study of Library Circulation and Possession(<Special Issue>Information as Literature/Literature as Information)

Atsuhiko Wada

Article type: Article
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 56-67
Published: January 10, 2008
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Is it possible to research on the possession, circulation, and management of a library in the method of literary studies? I think it is. To demonstrate it, here I analyze the US Library of Congress's management of Japanese books that were confiscated during the occupation period. The analysis of the library management will help us to comprehensively understand why and how those books were confiscated. It will also show a useful way of access to them.

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Hypertext and Literary Studies(<Special Issue>Information as Literature/Literature as Information)

Satoshi Kimata

Article type: Article
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 68-75
Published: January 10, 2008
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What is hypertext? Ted Nelson defines it as "non-sequential writing" on a computer. Then is it possible to treat hypertext in the field of literary studies? In my opinion literature should be studied on the assumption that any text is not tied to the past when it was written but still signifies something in the present. Moreover, even when a single text is studied, its individuality must be considered in the background of universality. Thus in treating hypertext Nelson's concept of "structangle" will be helpful, for it is very important to analyze its dynamic process of text-making through links and connections.

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"Flat Literature" in the Network Society(<Special Issue>Information as Literature/Literature as Information)

Takeshi Oshino

Article type: Article
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 76-85
Published: January 10, 2008
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The network society enables people and things to have encounters that were unthinkable and impossible before. Reduced to a "flat" piece of information, however, everything is now in danger of losing its own value and quality. Literature is also rapidly becoming "flat." The tendency can be found in the decline of serious literature and the rise of trash one such as mystery novels and animations. But "flat literature" is useful not for literary study but for cultural research because its existence itself proves the process of violent assimilation and reification in the excessively information-oriented society.

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A Historical Meaning of "Failures" in Teaching Material for Kokugo(<Special Issue>Information as Literature/Literature as Information)

Yuichiro Kai

Article type: Article
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 86-93
Published: January 10, 2008
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Since its establishment as a primary school subject in 1900 the teaching of kokugo has played a double role; an educational role in the improvement of linguistic ability and an ethical one in moralistic inculcation. In the prewar period the lives of failed people, especially those of Takanori Kojima, Kina Tsukinoi, and Katsuaki Torii, were often used as teaching material precisely on purpose to teach the moral that one can find something meaningful even in failure. The concept of such moralistic teaching is still alive in present-day teaching material like "Gongitsune."

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Don't Be an "Old-Production-Date" Scholar (Although Maybe Too Late)(The Meridian)

Itsuo Asago

Article type: Article
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 94-95
Published: January 10, 2008
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Saigyo Watching the Relics: Reading the 1048th Poem of Sanga-shu(Reading)

Yumiko Watanabe

Article type: Article
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 96-100
Published: January 10, 2008
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Article type: Appendix
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 101-
Published: January 10, 2008
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Yasumitsu Onishi, Rinzo Shiina's Detachment: Existentialism in Postwar Literature

Kakuzo Maeda

Article type: Article
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 102-103
Published: January 10, 2008
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Article type: Bibliography
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 104-106
Published: January 10, 2008
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Article type: Bibliography
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 106-
Published: January 10, 2008
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Article type: Bibliography
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 109-107
Published: January 10, 2008
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Article type: Index
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 110-
Published: January 10, 2008
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Article type: Index
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 110-
Published: January 10, 2008
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Article type: Appendix
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages App3-
Published: January 10, 2008
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Article type: Cover
2008 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages Cover3-
Published: January 10, 2008
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