Dennis Washburn

Biographic Data

ID3959436
NAMEDennis Washburn
GIVEN NAMESDennis
FAMILY NAMEWashburn
SIGNATUREWASHBURN D
ORCID0000-0002-8377-5340
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS22
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT17
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire

    Paul D Barclay, InYoung Bong et al.BOOKAffect of Difference2017

    The Affect of Difference is a collection of essays offering a new perspective on the history of race and racial ideologies in modern East Asia. Contributors approach this subject through the exploration of everyday culture from a range of academic disciplines, each working to show how race was made visible and present as a potential means of identification. By analyzing artifacts from diverse media including travelogues, records of speech, photog…

  • The affect of difference: Representations of race in East Asian empire

    Christopher P Hanscom, Dennis WashburnBOOKThe affect of difference2016

  • Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire

    Christopher P Hanscom, Dennis Washburn et al.BOOKAffect of Difference2016

  • A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan (review)

    Dennis WashburnARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2010

  • Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History (review)

    Dennis WashburnARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2008

    Reviewed by: Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History Dennis Washburn (bio) Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History. By Scott Nygren. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2007. xxi, 297 pages. $75.00, cloth; $25.00, paper. Time Frames is an ambitious, complex, and occasionally quirky study. The author, Scott Nygren, presents both a historical overview of the Japanese film industry that privileges its posi…

  • Converting cultures: Religion, ideology and transformations of modernity

    Dennis Washburn, Kevin ReinhartBOOKConverting cultures2007Cited by: 6

    This volume considers the concept of conversion as a tool for understanding transformations to modernity. It examines conversions to modernity within the Ottoman domain, India, China, and Japan as a reaction to the pressures of colonialism and imperialism

  • Translating Mount Fuji: Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity

    Dennis Washburn, Dennis C WashburnBOOKTranslating Mount Fuji2006

    PrefaceIntroduction. Real Identities1. Ghostwriters and Literary Haunts2. Translating Mount Fuji3. Manly Virtue and Modern Identity4. Real Images5. Toward a View from Nowhere6. Kitsch, Nihilism, and the InauthenticEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

  • Rhetoric in Modern Japan: Western Influences on the Development of Narrative and Oratorical Style (review)

    Dennis Washburn, Dennis C WashburnARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2006

    Reviewed by: Rhetoric in Modern Japan: Western Influences on the Development of Narrative and Oratorical Style Dennis Washburn (bio) Rhetoric in Modern Japan: Western Influences on the Development of Narrative and Oratorical Style. By Massimiliano Tomasi. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2004. x, 214 pages. $40.00. Massimiliano Tomasi has written a useful and illuminating study that explores an aspect of Japanese literary history heretofore…

  • Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity

    Dennis WashburnARTICLEModern Language Quarterly2005

    Book Review| December 01 2005 Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity Dennis Washburn is Dartmouth Professor in Japanese Studies at Dartmouth College. His translation of Ooka Shohei's novel, A Wife in Musashino, appeared in 2004. He is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled Translating Mount Fuji: Autonomy, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Identity. Dennis Washburn Dennis Washburn Search…

  • Ozu's Anti-Cinema (review)

    Dennis Washburn, Dennis C WashburnARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2005

    Reviewed by: Ozu's Anti-Cinema Dennis Washburn (bio) Ozu's Anti-Cinema. By Yoshida Kiju; translated by Daisuke Miyao and Kyoko Hirano. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2003. xx, 178 pages. $55.00, cloth; $22.00, paper. Of all the achievements of Ozu Yasujirō, the most peculiar, and certainly unintended, is attaining the status of a touchstone by which critics, historians, and other artists test the value of their ae…

  • Shanghai: A Novel by Yokomitsu Riichi

    Open AccessYokomitsu Riichi, Riichi Yokomitsu et al.BOOKShanghai2001

  • Word and Image in Japanese Cinema

    Paul Anderer, Dennis Washburn et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica2001Cited by: 4

    List of illustrations Contributors Foreword: outside views of the Japanese film Donald Richie Introduction Carole Cavanaugh and Dennis Washburn Part I. Wording the Image/Imaging the Word: 1. The word before the image: criticism, the screenplay, and the regulation of meaning in prewar Japanese film culture Aaron Gerow 2. The cinematic art of Higuchi Ichiyo's Takekurabe (comparing heights, 1895-1896) Janet Walker 3. Once More and Gosho's Romanticis…

  • Word and Image in Japanese Cinema

    Open AccessDennis C Washburn, Donald Richie et al.BOOKWord and Image in Japanese Cinema2000

    Word and Image in Japanese Cinema examines the complex relationship between the temporal order of linguistic narrative and the spatiality of visual spectacle, a dynamic that has played an important role in much of Japanese film. The tension between the controlling order of words and the liberating fragmentation of images has been an important force that has shaped modern culture in Japan and that has also determined the evolution of its cinema. I…

  • Performing Theory

    Dennis Washburn, Atsuko SakakiARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica2000

  • Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan

    J Cohn, Dennis Washburn et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1998

  • Toward a View from Nowhere: Perspective and Ethical Judgment in Fires on the Plain

    Dennis WashburnARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1997

  • Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb

    Dennis Washburn, John Whittier TreatARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1996

  • The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction

    Reiko Abe Auestad, Dennis Washburn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1996

    A look at modernity in Japanese literary culture as a continuing historical dynamic rather than as merely the product of the intense Westernization of the 19th and early-20th centuries

  • The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction

    Ann Sherif, Dennis Washburn et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1995

  • Manly Virtue and the Quest for Self: The Bildungsroman of Mori Ogai

    Dennis WashburnARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1995Cited by: 1

  • Off Center: Power and Culture Relations Between Japan and The United States

    Dennis Washburn, Masao MiyoshiARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1994

  • Ghostwriters and Literary Haunts. Subordinating Ethics to Art in Ugetsu Monogatari

    Dennis WashburnARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1990Cited by: 1