Stephen Dodd

Biographic Data

ID700963
NAMEStephen Dodd
GIVEN NAMESStephen
FAMILY NAMEDodd
SIGNATUREDODD S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of London
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS144
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • The pleasure of dark places

    Stephen DoddARTICLEJapan Forum2025References: 6

    While utopia implies an ideal space, and dystopia a site of dysfunction, Michel Foucault coined the word heterotopia to depict a space containing multiple, overlapping and sometimes conflicting layers of meaning. This article first considers Mishima Yukio (1925–1970) himself as a heterotopian body, both physical and textual, and then goes on to examine how his novel, Inochi urimasu (Life for Sale, 1968), employs a range of heterotopian tropes as …

  • "Structures of colonialism in Itō Sei's "Yūki no machi

    Open AccessStephen DoddARTICLEBulletin of the School of…2013References: 5

    In Itō Sei's (1905-69) "Yūki no machi" (Streets of ghosts, 1937), a narrator returns to his native town of Otaru, Hokkaido, where he experiences a hellish and hallucinatory encounter with people from his past. He is forced to confront shameful aspects of his youthful life that he had tried to repress. In this paper, I propose that a close examination of the story sheds useful light on the real fears, tensions and expectations surrounding colonial…

  • Darkness Transformed

    Stephen DoddARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2007

    Illness is a useful metaphor to understand Kajii Motojirō's place in the intellectual context of his times. His stay at a hot-spring resort for 16 months due to tuberculosis-related problems represented a kind of quarantine from the cultural and literary center of Tokyo. On the other hand, his illness provided a form of empowerment, opening links to other socially and politically marginalized groups. He found echoes to his own literary approach i…

  • The Dawn that Never Comes

    Stephen DoddARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2005

    Reviewed by: The Dawn that Never Comes: Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese Nationalism Stephen Dodd (bio) The Dawn that Never Comes: Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese Nationalism. By Michael K. Bourdaghs. Columbia University Press, New York, 2003. x, 273 pages. $49.50. In this book, Michael Bourdaghs sets out to demonstrate that the novels of Shimazaki Tōson (1872-1943) may be read as a key to exploring contending versions of Japanese nationalism that have …

  • Writing Home

    Open AccessStephen Dodd, STEPHEN L DODDBOOKWriting Home2004

    This book examines the development of Japanese literature depicting the native place (furusato) from the mid-Meiji period through the late 1930s as a way of articulating the uprootedness and sense of loss many experienced as Japan modernized. The 1890s witnessed the appearance of fictional works describing a city dweller who returns to his native place, where he reflects on the evils of urban life and the idyllic past of his childhood home. The b…

  • Chaos and Order in the Works of Natsume Soseki

    Stephen Dodd, Natsume Soseki et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1999

  • The Significance of Bodies in Soseki's Kokoro

    Stephen DoddARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1998Cited by: 2References: 3

    S INCE the time it first appeared, Natsume Soseki's RH El*AU Kokoro 6 I (The Heart, 1914) has been the subject of a wide range of theoretical and historical studies; the last decade has seen a particularly productive upsurge in interest among literary critics in both Japan and the West. Among other things, critics have suggested that there are links between the novel, its canonization as a literary text representing modem Japan, and nation-state …

  • Japan's private parts

    Stephen DoddARTICLEJapan Forum1996

    This paper examines the way Nakagami Kenji's texts highlight what are generally repressed elements of mainstream Japanese culture, or what he calls its ‘private parts’. Main texts cited are the collection of essays, Kishū: ki no kuni, ne no kuni monogatari, and the short stories, ‘Shugen’, ‘Fushi’ and ‘Kataku’. Making use of his own peripheral status in relation to Japanese society as a native of the Kumano region, the elements he uncovers includ…

  • The Sick Rose

    Stephen Dodd, Sato Haruo et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1995

    The sick rose, a pastoral elegy, or, Gloom in the country -- Okinu and her brother -- Gloom in the city

  • Fantasies, Fairies, and Electric Dreams

    Stephen DoddARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1994Cited by: 1

  • Brain Size, Cranial Morphology, Climate, and Time Machines [and Comments and Reply]

    Kenneth L Beals, C Smith et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1984Cited by: 109References: 7

    A bioclimatic model is evaluated as an explanation of variation in cranial capacity among 122 ethnic groups. Distribution of absolute and relative endocranial volume is mapped. Significant correlations occur with all nine climatic variables examined. Major foci of adaptation occur with solar radiation, vapor pressure, and winter temperature. Global mean trait increase is 2.5 cm per degree of equatorial distance. The interactive geometry between c…

  • On Cranial Morphology and Climate

    Winfried Henke, Kenneth L Beals et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1984

  • Climate and the evolution of brachycephalization

    Open AccessKenneth L Beals, Olga Cirera Martínez et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…1983Cited by: 32References: 8

    Significant associations of cranial shape for 82 ethnic groups and seven climate variables are described. Variation among current populations is partially attributed to cold adaptation throughout the Pleistocene. Application of data files tabulated by the authors is described for a number of problems. Temporal distribution of 115 specimens indicates a geometric trend (CI = 76.7 – 1.96 log time × 10 3 ). Cranial indices are summarized within alter…