Roy Starrs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Starrs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Starrs |
| SIGNATURE | STARRS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9685-4323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930
Scholars, Japanese and non-Japanese alike, have studied the greater Taisho era (1900-1930) within the framework of Taisho demokurashii (democracy). While this concept has proved useful, students of the period in more recent years have sought alternative ways of understanding the late Meiji-Taisho period. This collection of essays, each based on new research, offers original insights into various aspects of modern Japanese cultural history from "m…
Renga: A European Poem and its Japanese Model
Renga (1971) is a book-length chain of linked poems written in four European languages by four leading twentieth-century poets: Octavio Paz, Edoardo Sanguineti, Charles Tomlinson, and Jacques Roubaud. Because this pioneering multiauthored, multilingual, and multicultural work is based on the medieval Japanese poetic genre of “linked verse” (renga), the question arises: what is the exact nature of the relation between the modern Western poem and i…
When the Tsunami Came to Shore: Culture and Disaster in Japan
"This collection of essays by an international group of leading experts on Japanese religion, anthropology, history, literature and music presents new research and thinking on the long and complex relationship between culture and disaster in Japan, one of the most 'disaster-prone' countries in the world. Focusing first on responses to the triple disasters of March 2011, the book then puts the topic in a wider historical context by looking at resp…
Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization
Topics include: Government Intervention and Economic Growth in East Asia, Agricultural Nationalism in the Age of Globalization, Japan's Dominance and Multi- Racial Coalitions in Malaysia
Zen Masters (review)
Reviewed by: Zen Masters Roy Starrs (bio) Zen Masters. Edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010. xv, 291 pages. £65.00, cloth; £17.00, paper. Zen masters have had rather bad press of late, what with the series of sex scandals at American Zen centers and the shocking revelations in some recent histories about the fascism, militarism, and even rabid anti-Semitism of some of the leading Zen masters of twentiet…
Rethinking Japanese Modernism
Edited by Roy Starrs, this collection of essays by an international group of leading Japan scholars presents new research and thinking on Japanese modernism, a topic that has been increasingly recognized in recent years to be key to an understanding of contemporary Japanese culture and society. By adopting an open, multidisciplinary, and transnational approach to this multifaceted topic, the book sheds new light both on the specific achievements …
Modernism and Japanese Culture
An in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism from the mid-19th century 'opening to the West' until the 21st century globalized world of 'postmodernism.' Its conce
Politics and Religion in Modern Japan: Red Sun, White Lotus
Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism
Journal Article Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shintō Ultranationalism Get access Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shintō Ultranationalism. By Walter A. Skya. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 400pp. $94.95 cloth; $25.95 paper. Roy Starrs Roy Starrs University of OtagoDunedin, New Zealand [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 5…
Politics and Religion in Japan
The relation between church and state, or religion and politics, has always been an uncomfortably close one in Japan, but it is only in recent years that this relationship has been seen as problematical, both from a political and a religious perspective. This article surveys two major areas of contention in particular: the present Japanese government's apparent attempts to revive an Emperor-centered State Shinto, and the lively recent debates ove…
A Devil of a Job: Mishima and the Masochistic Drive
The Kojiki as Japan’s National Narrative
Japanese Cultural Nationalism: At Home and in the Asia-Pacific
Based on the premise that Japanese cultural nationalism has been and is a major cultural/historical force throughout the Asia Pacific this book has dual focus: Part 1 explores Japanese literature, philosophy, education, politics, diplomacy, music; Part 2 extends Japanese role to Asia Pacific at large. Part One explores significant and influential expressions of cultural nationalism in Japanese literature, philosophy, education, politics, diplomac…
Confluences: Postwar Japan and France (review)
Reviewed by: Confluences: Postwar Japan and France Roy Starrs (bio) Confluences: Postwar Japan and France. Edited by Doug Slaymaker. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002. viii, 185 pages. $60.00. As Katō Shūichi points out in his essay in this collection: "The France- Japan ratio of influence is anything but symmetrical. . . .the impact that French writing and thinking has had on Japan is much greater than that of …
Soundings in Time: The Fictive Art of Yasunari Kawabata
An Artless Art: The Zen Aesthetic of Shiga Naoya
An Artless Art: The Zen Aesthetics of Shiga Naoya
On Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit's Review of Deadly Dialectics
Japanese Gothic Tales
Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima
This is the first of Mishima to give an adequate account of his intellectual background and thought processes, the first to treat his major works in their proper literary context as philosophic novels, and the first to show the intimate and integral relation between his thought, psychology and militant sexuality and his propensity to violence
The Secret Window: Ideal Worlds in Tanizaki's Fiction
La Pensee de Kobayashi Hideo: Un Intellectuel Japonais au Tournant de l'Histoire
Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima
The Secret Window: Ideal Worlds in Tanizaki's Fiction
La Pensee de Kobayashi Hideo: Un Intellectuel Japonais au Tournant de l'Histoire
Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima
Japanese Gothic Tales
Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima
This is the first of Mishima to give an adequate account of his intellectual background and thought processes, the first to treat his major works in their proper literary context as philosophic novels, and the first to show the intimate and integral relation between his thought, psychology and militant sexuality and his propensity to violence
On Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit's Review of Deadly Dialectics
An Artless Art: The Zen Aesthetics of Shiga Naoya
Soundings in Time: The Fictive Art of Yasunari Kawabata
An Artless Art: The Zen Aesthetic of Shiga Naoya
Japanese Cultural Nationalism: At Home and in the Asia-Pacific
Based on the premise that Japanese cultural nationalism has been and is a major cultural/historical force throughout the Asia Pacific this book has dual focus: Part 1 explores Japanese literature, philosophy, education, politics, diplomacy, music; Part 2 extends Japanese role to Asia Pacific at large. Part One explores significant and influential expressions of cultural nationalism in Japanese literature, philosophy, education, politics, diplomac…
Confluences: Postwar Japan and France (review)
Reviewed by: Confluences: Postwar Japan and France Roy Starrs (bio) Confluences: Postwar Japan and France. Edited by Doug Slaymaker. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002. viii, 185 pages. $60.00. As Katō Shūichi points out in his essay in this collection: "The France- Japan ratio of influence is anything but symmetrical. . . .the impact that French writing and thinking has had on Japan is much greater than that of …
The Kojiki as Japan’s National Narrative
Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism
Journal Article Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shintō Ultranationalism Get access Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shintō Ultranationalism. By Walter A. Skya. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 400pp. $94.95 cloth; $25.95 paper. Roy Starrs Roy Starrs University of OtagoDunedin, New Zealand [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 5…
Politics and Religion in Japan
The relation between church and state, or religion and politics, has always been an uncomfortably close one in Japan, but it is only in recent years that this relationship has been seen as problematical, both from a political and a religious perspective. This article surveys two major areas of contention in particular: the present Japanese government's apparent attempts to revive an Emperor-centered State Shinto, and the lively recent debates ove…
A Devil of a Job: Mishima and the Masochistic Drive
Modernism and Japanese Culture
An in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism from the mid-19th century 'opening to the West' until the 21st century globalized world of 'postmodernism.' Its conce
Politics and Religion in Modern Japan: Red Sun, White Lotus
Rethinking Japanese Modernism
Edited by Roy Starrs, this collection of essays by an international group of leading Japan scholars presents new research and thinking on Japanese modernism, a topic that has been increasingly recognized in recent years to be key to an understanding of contemporary Japanese culture and society. By adopting an open, multidisciplinary, and transnational approach to this multifaceted topic, the book sheds new light both on the specific achievements …
Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization
Topics include: Government Intervention and Economic Growth in East Asia, Agricultural Nationalism in the Age of Globalization, Japan's Dominance and Multi- Racial Coalitions in Malaysia
Zen Masters (review)
Reviewed by: Zen Masters Roy Starrs (bio) Zen Masters. Edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010. xv, 291 pages. £65.00, cloth; £17.00, paper. Zen masters have had rather bad press of late, what with the series of sex scandals at American Zen centers and the shocking revelations in some recent histories about the fascism, militarism, and even rabid anti-Semitism of some of the leading Zen masters of twentiet…
When the Tsunami Came to Shore: Culture and Disaster in Japan
"This collection of essays by an international group of leading experts on Japanese religion, anthropology, history, literature and music presents new research and thinking on the long and complex relationship between culture and disaster in Japan, one of the most 'disaster-prone' countries in the world. Focusing first on responses to the triple disasters of March 2011, the book then puts the topic in a wider historical context by looking at resp…
Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930
Scholars, Japanese and non-Japanese alike, have studied the greater Taisho era (1900-1930) within the framework of Taisho demokurashii (democracy). While this concept has proved useful, students of the period in more recent years have sought alternative ways of understanding the late Meiji-Taisho period. This collection of essays, each based on new research, offers original insights into various aspects of modern Japanese cultural history from "m…
Renga: A European Poem and its Japanese Model
Renga (1971) is a book-length chain of linked poems written in four European languages by four leading twentieth-century poets: Octavio Paz, Edoardo Sanguineti, Charles Tomlinson, and Jacques Roubaud. Because this pioneering multiauthored, multilingual, and multicultural work is based on the medieval Japanese poetic genre of “linked verse” (renga), the question arises: what is the exact nature of the relation between the modern Western poem and i…
Art (14 works) · Japanese History and Culture (13 works) · History (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Literature (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)