Ronald P Loftus
Biographic Data
| ID | 734857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald P Loftus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald P |
| FAMILY NAME | Loftus |
| SIGNATURE | LOFTUS R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Willamette University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5264-871X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fate, Nature and Literary Form: The Politics of the Tragic in Japanese Literature
Telling Lives: Women's Self-Writing in Modern Japan
In this fascinating collection of translations, Telling Lives looks at the self-writing of five Japanese women who came of age during the decades leading up to World War II. Following an introduction that situates women’s self-writing against the backdrop of Japan during the 1920s and 1930s, Loftus takes up the autobiographies of Oku Mumeo, a leader of the prewar women’s movement, and Takai Toshio, a textile worker who later became a well-known l…
Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895–1925 (review)
Reviewed by: Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895–1925 Ronald P. Loftus Aaron Gerow Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895–1925 University of California Press, 2010; 323 pages; paperback; $24.95 Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation and Spectatorship, 1895–1925 is a book not so much about film as about the discursive histor…
Female Self-Writing. Takamure Itsue's Hi no Kuno no Onna no Nikki
Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan
In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays are presented here constitute a strong current in the history of modern Japanese life from the 1880s to the outbreak of the Pacific War
In Search of Japan's First Modern Autobiography
This article explores the development of autobiography as a genre in early twentieth-century Japan by looking at three examples of Japanese autobiography from the first quarter of the century. The author finds that Taoka Reiun's A Record of My Misfortunes (1911) is the most successful at balancing an account of the external circumstances of a life with deeply self-revelatory, inner reflections. The language and tone of the text, the attention pai…
In Search of Japan's First Modern Autobiography
This article explores the development of autobiography as a genre in early twentieth-century Japan by looking at three examples of Japanese autobiography from the first quarter of the century. The author finds that Taoka Reiun's A Record of My Misfortunes (1911) is the most successful at balancing an account of the external circumstances of a life with deeply self-revelatory, inner reflections. The language and tone of the text, the attention pai…
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan
In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays are presented here constitute a strong current in the history of modern Japanese life from the 1880s to the outbreak of the Pacific War
Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945
Female Self-Writing. Takamure Itsue's Hi no Kuno no Onna no Nikki
Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895–1925 (review)
Reviewed by: Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895–1925 Ronald P. Loftus Aaron Gerow Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895–1925 University of California Press, 2010; 323 pages; paperback; $24.95 Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation and Spectatorship, 1895–1925 is a book not so much about film as about the discursive histor…
Telling Lives: Women's Self-Writing in Modern Japan
In this fascinating collection of translations, Telling Lives looks at the self-writing of five Japanese women who came of age during the decades leading up to World War II. Following an introduction that situates women’s self-writing against the backdrop of Japan during the 1920s and 1930s, Loftus takes up the autobiographies of Oku Mumeo, a leader of the prewar women’s movement, and Takai Toshio, a textile worker who later became a well-known l…
Fate, Nature and Literary Form: The Politics of the Tragic in Japanese Literature
Japanese History and Culture (6 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)