Speaker:Miyabi Goto (Ph.D. candidate, the East Asian Studies Department of Princeton University)
Date and time:December 10, 2015 (Thur.), 5:00-6:00PM
Venue:Lobby(1F), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
Language:English
Abstract:
Bungaku, now translated as “literature,” came to be defined as a type of fine arts in Japan\’s Meiji period (1868-1912). Despite how self-evident the idea of literature seems in retrospect, in the early Meiji period bungaku could range in meaning from historiography, to belles-lettres, to Chinese classics, and others. The emergence of bungaku as a fine art as well as the exclusion of other possibilities took place against a larger backdrop of nation building, modernization, and technologization. This presentation focuses on a dualistic rhetoric of kyo-jitsu and examines how that rhetoric functioned to bridge bungaku and fine arts.
Organizer: The Global Japan Studies Network (GJS)
Co-organizer: Network for Education and Research on Asia (ASNET)
Contact： gjs[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
http://gjs.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/events/post/20151210_gjs_seminar/
