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	<title>Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon &#187; Japanese literature</title>
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		<title>The Current Reading List</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2011/12/28/the-current-reading-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few things I&#8217;ve been reading as of late: Jim Harrison, True North (Grove Press, 2004). I&#8217;m a belated convert to Harrison&#8217;s fiction: I&#8217;ve known about him since a girlfriend in high school recommended him, but only started reading his work in the last few years. I inadvertently read Returning to Earth, the 2007 sequel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Natsume Sōseki&#8217;s Theory of Literature</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2011/12/27/revisiting-natsume-sosekis-theory-of-literature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the University of Tokyo&#8217;s Center for Philosophy hosted a symposium on &#8220;Globalizing Natsume Sōseki&#8217;s Theory of Literature,&#8221; commemorating the publication of the English translation of Bungakuron (1907), Sōseki&#8217;s remarkable attempt to construct a fully scientific theory of &#8220;literature&#8221; complete with mathematical formulas and graphs, one that was supposed to be valid at all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blurbing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things on my to-do list this past week was to compose a blurb for a forthcoming book on modern Japanese literature. I get asked to do this once or twice a year; often it is for a title that I&#8217;ve already reviewed as an external referee, meaning that I&#8217;m already quite familiar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Book</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/09/26/new-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Politics of Culture: Around the Work of Naoki Sakai, edited by Richard Calichman and John Namjun Kim, has just been published. An exploration of one of the most interesting theorists working in Japanese cultural studies (and one of my own mentors), the volume contains new essays by scholars from a variety of fields&#8211;including yours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of the Devil</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/09/01/speaking-of-the-devil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my reading recently I&#8217;ve been haunted by the devil. For example, he shows up, albeit ambiguously, in Charles Baxter&#8217;s fine 2008 novel, The Soul Thief. The narrative, written with Baxter&#8217;s usual intelligence and style, traces the life on one &#8220;Nathaniel Mason,&#8221; as told in the first person&#8211;or, perhaps not. It might be that Nathaniel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Birth of a Scholar</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/08/07/the-birth-of-a-scholar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings again from Tokyo, where we continue to melt in the heat and humidity. At the party following our workshop on early postwar Japanese literary criticism at Waseda University last week, one of the graduate student participants asked the professors attending an interesting question: at what point in your career did you start feeling like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Current Reading List</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/07/23/the-current-reading-list-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin. Just about the perfect novel: funny, poignant, wise. Nabokov&#8217;s ability to make the English language dance at will is astonishing. The hero Pnin is a White Russian exile, an intellectual reared in the salt water of Europe now trying to survive in the mucky freshwater of 1950s American academia. It&#8217;s been years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now in Paperback!</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/07/02/now-in-paperback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings, a collection of English translations of Natsume Soseki&#8217;s writings on literary theory that I co-edited with Atsuko Ueda and Joseph Murphy, is now available in paperback for a mere $27.50. Such a deal! The volume was originally published in hardcover last year. Public Radio International&#8217;s &#8220;The World&#8221; picked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Past Year at the University of Chicago:  The Video Record</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/06/30/the-past-year-at-the-university-of-chicago-the-video-record/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us who study Japanese culture and literature at the University of Chicago had an exciting year in 2009-2010. We&#8217;ve now posted video of some of the major events. Nobel laureate Oe Kenzaburo delivered this year&#8217;s Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture in March. Video of his speech, &#8220;A Novelist Re-Reads &#8216;Kaitokudo,&#8217;&#8221; in the original Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Didn&#8217;t Start With Tanizaki</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/06/20/it-didnt-start-with-tanizaki/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foot fetishism in Asian literature goes back long before the twentieth century. I&#8217;ve just come across the following poem in praise of women&#8217;s feet by great Tang dynasty bard Li Po 李白 (701-762). Shades of Naomi&#8230;. The Women of Yueh (1) She is a southern girl of Chang-kan Town; Her face is prettier than star [...]]]></description>
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