HERMENEUTICAL STRATEGIES:
METHODS OF INTERPRETATION IN THE STUDY OF JAPANESE LITERATURE

NOVEMBER 21-23, 2003
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA , LOS ANGELES

ORGANIZER: MICHAEL F. MARRA, UCLA

Call for Papers

The University of California, Los Angeles, will be hosting the Annual Meeting of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies (AJLS) in 2003. The conference will be held from November 21-23, 2003 at UCLA. In this conference presenters will analyze the nature of their daily critical endeavors, and will discuss issues related to the hermeneutical paths (past, present, and future) that have been, are, and will be guiding us in the discussion and interpretation of Japan’s literary texts. Papers should deal with hermeneutical practices relevant to the interpretation of Japan’s literary heritage. We solicit papers and panels related to the following topics: 1) methodologies relevant to the study of modern Japanese literature such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, new-historicism, feminism, deconstruction, cultural studies, film studies, etc; 2) methodologies relevant to the study of pre-modern Japanese literature such as the study of poetics (karon, hairon, rengaron, nohgakuron), commentaries (chushakusho), and other rhetorical techniques; 3) hypotheses on future methodologies to be envisioned in light of the current digital revolution. Proposals are due by June 30, 2003. E-mail submissions are preferred. Proposals and other inquiries should be sent to Michael F. Marra, Conference Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, 290 Royce Hall 154003, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540; E-mail: marra@humnet.ucla.edu; Tel: (310) 794-8941; Fax: (310) 825-8808.