Joshua S Mostow
Biographic Data
| ID | 739658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua S Mostow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua S |
| FAMILY NAME | Mostow |
| SIGNATURE | MOSTOW J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2303-0766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume III provides in-depth analyses of specific times and places in the history of world sexualities, to investigate more closely the lived experience of individuals and groups to reveal the diversity of human sexualities. Comprising twenty-five chapters, this volume covers ancient Athens, Rome, and Constantinople; eighth- and ninth-century Chang'an, ninth- and tenth-century Baghdad, and tenth- through twelfth-century Kyoto; fourteenth- and fif…
The Ise-e Tradition and Ise Manga
The Ise monogatari (The Ise Stories, aka Tales of Ise, tenth cen.) is the oldest continuously illustrated secular narrative in Japanese history. The present article explores to what extent, and how, contemporary manga artists engage with or use this rich visual tradition, examining three examples, in the seinen (young male-oriented), shōjo (young female-oriented), and gyagu (gag) genres, yet all arguably categorizable as gakushū, or educational, …
The Gender of Wakashu and the Grammar of Desire
Ono no Komachi
The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father
This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the "father-daughter dynamic" in Japanese female literary experience. Its contributors examine the ways in which women have been placed politically, ideologically, and symbolically as "daughters" in a culture that venerates "the father." They weigh the impact that this daughterly position has had on both the performance and production of women's writing from the classical period to…
Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field
In this, the first collection in English of feminist-oriented research on Japanese art and visual culture, an international group of scholars examines representations of women in a wide range of visual work. The volume begins with Chino Kaori's now-classic essay "Gender in Japanese Art," which introduced feminist theory to Japanese art. This is followed by a closer look at a famous thirteenth-century battle scroll and the production of bijin (bea…
A Cultural History of Translation in Early Modern Japan by Rebekah Clements
Reviewed by: A Cultural History of Translation in Early Modern Japan by Rebekah Clements Joshua S. Mostow (bio) A Cultural History of Translation in Early Modern Japan. By Rebekah Clements. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015. xii, 275 pages. $99.99, cloth; $80.00, E-book. Rebekah Clements has produced an important study of the kinds of texts that were translated into contemporaneous Japanese(s) throughout the early modern period. Her int…
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving insight into both canonical texts and many lesser known, popular genres, from centuries-old folk literature to the detective fiction of modern times. …
Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation
Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation traces—through the visual and literary record—the reception and use of the tenth-century literary romance through the seventeenth century. Ise monogatari (The Ise Stories) takes shape in a salon of politically disenfranchised courtiers, then transforms later in the Heian period (794-1185) into a key subtext for autobiographical writings by female aristocrats. In the twelf…
Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation
Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation traces-through the visual and literary record-the reception and use of the tenth-century literary romance through the seventeenth century. Ise monogatari (The Ise Stories) takes shape in a salon of politically disenfranchised courtiers, then transforms later in the Heian period (794-1185) into a key subtext for autobiographical writings by female aristocrats. In the twelf…
The Tale of Light Snow: Pastiche, Epistolary Fiction and Narrativity Verbal and Visual
This article examines the early printings of a kana-zōshi, Usuyuki monogatari, from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The text is a pastiche of earlier works, most especially the Heian-period Ise monogatari, and an early edition uses illustrations from the 1608 Saga-bon Ise monogatari wholesale. The article examines whether the function of such visual and verbal quotation can be called parodic, and explores the role of narrativi…
Performing Nation: Gender Politics in Literature, Theater, and the Visual Arts of China and Japan, 1880-1940
Performing "Nation": Gender Politics in Literature, Theater, and the Visual Arts of China and Japan, 1880-1940
Uniquely covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume aims to correlate the conjunctions of nation building, gender and representation in late 19th and early 20th century China and Japan. Focusing on gender formation, the chapters explore the changing constructs of masculinities and femininities in China and Japan from the early modern up to the 1930s. Chapters focus on the dynamism that links the remodeling of t…
Female Readers and Early Heian Romances: The Hakubyo Tales of Ise Illustrated Scroll Fragments
Female Readers and Early Heian RomancesThe Hakubyō Tales of Ise Illustrated Scroll Fragments Joshua S. Mostow (bio) In the post-World War II era, Japanese scholars reached the consensus that the keyword to the early court romance The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari) is miyabi.1 Miyabu is to perform or conduct oneself in a manner appropriate to a miya, or court—especially the court of the sovereign—suggesting the translation "courtliness." Miyabi, ho…
At the House of Gathered Leaves: Shorter Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives from Japanese Court Literature
This collection of Japanese women s diary literature (nikki bungaku) begins with The Takemitsu Journal (also known as The Tale of the Tōnomine Lesser Captain, c. 962), an important precursor and model for the famous Kagerō Diary, and Tales of Toyokage (c. 971), a fictionalized reworking of his own poems by Regent Koremasa himself. It also includes the first complete English translations of the Hon in no Jiju and of the narrative section of The Co…
The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature
This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development of their respective countries, this companion is an essential starting point for the study of East Asian literatures. Comprehensive thematic ess…
Fictions of Femininity: Literary Inventions of Gender in Japanese Court Women's Memoirs
Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image
Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry
In this book Edward Kamens analyzes a wide selection of poems to show how utamakura came to wield special powers within Japanese poetry. He reveals how poets in generation after generation returned, either in person or in imagination, to these places and to poems about them to encounter again forms, styles, and techniques of their forbears, and to discover ways to create new poems of their own. Kamens focuses especially on one figure, the buried …
Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image
Authenticating Culture in Japan: Kuki Shuzo and the Rise of National Aesthetics
Modern Japanese Tanka: An Anthology
Pictures of the heart the Hyakunin Isshu in word and image: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image
"This book provides, for the first time in English, the kind of information that allows an accurate appreciation of the meanings and quality of Japanese poems.... Mostow's reception-oriented approach in this poem-by-poem discussion inspires an excellent essay on the history of English translations of this collection." --Choice"Joshua Mostow offers a brilliant and multifaceted exploration of Japanese poetics through translations, commentaries, and…
Representations of Power: The Literary Politics of Medieval Japan
Japanese Biographies: Life Histories, Life Cycles, Life Stages
The Tale of Light Snow: Pastiche, Epistolary Fiction and Narrativity Verbal and Visual
This article examines the early printings of a kana-zōshi, Usuyuki monogatari, from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The text is a pastiche of earlier works, most especially the Heian-period Ise monogatari, and an early edition uses illustrations from the 1608 Saga-bon Ise monogatari wholesale. The article examines whether the function of such visual and verbal quotation can be called parodic, and explores the role of narrativi…
The amorous statesman and the poetess: The politics of autobiography and theKagerō Nikki
(1992). The amorous statesman and the poetess: The politics of autobiography and the Kagerō Nikki. Japan Forum: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 305-315
Language, Literature and Meaning I: Problems of Literary Theory
Painted Poems, Forgotten Words. Poem-Pictures and Classical Japanese Literature
The amorous statesman and the poetess: The politics of autobiography and theKagerō Nikki
(1992). The amorous statesman and the poetess: The politics of autobiography and the Kagerō Nikki. Japan Forum: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 305-315
Biography East and West: Literary Studies East and West
Representations of Power: The Literary Politics of Medieval Japan
Japanese Biographies: Life Histories, Life Cycles, Life Stages
Pictures of the heart the Hyakunin Isshu in word and image: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image
"This book provides, for the first time in English, the kind of information that allows an accurate appreciation of the meanings and quality of Japanese poems.... Mostow's reception-oriented approach in this poem-by-poem discussion inspires an excellent essay on the history of English translations of this collection." --Choice"Joshua Mostow offers a brilliant and multifaceted exploration of Japanese poetics through translations, commentaries, and…
Authenticating Culture in Japan: Kuki Shuzo and the Rise of National Aesthetics
Modern Japanese Tanka: An Anthology
Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image
Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry
In this book Edward Kamens analyzes a wide selection of poems to show how utamakura came to wield special powers within Japanese poetry. He reveals how poets in generation after generation returned, either in person or in imagination, to these places and to poems about them to encounter again forms, styles, and techniques of their forbears, and to discover ways to create new poems of their own. Kamens focuses especially on one figure, the buried …
Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image
Fictions of Femininity: Literary Inventions of Gender in Japanese Court Women's Memoirs
The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature
This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development of their respective countries, this companion is an essential starting point for the study of East Asian literatures. Comprehensive thematic ess…
At the House of Gathered Leaves: Shorter Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives from Japanese Court Literature
This collection of Japanese women s diary literature (nikki bungaku) begins with The Takemitsu Journal (also known as The Tale of the Tōnomine Lesser Captain, c. 962), an important precursor and model for the famous Kagerō Diary, and Tales of Toyokage (c. 971), a fictionalized reworking of his own poems by Regent Koremasa himself. It also includes the first complete English translations of the Hon in no Jiju and of the narrative section of The Co…
Female Readers and Early Heian Romances: The Hakubyo Tales of Ise Illustrated Scroll Fragments
Female Readers and Early Heian RomancesThe Hakubyō Tales of Ise Illustrated Scroll Fragments Joshua S. Mostow (bio) In the post-World War II era, Japanese scholars reached the consensus that the keyword to the early court romance The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari) is miyabi.1 Miyabu is to perform or conduct oneself in a manner appropriate to a miya, or court—especially the court of the sovereign—suggesting the translation "courtliness." Miyabi, ho…
Performing Nation: Gender Politics in Literature, Theater, and the Visual Arts of China and Japan, 1880-1940
Performing "Nation": Gender Politics in Literature, Theater, and the Visual Arts of China and Japan, 1880-1940
Uniquely covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume aims to correlate the conjunctions of nation building, gender and representation in late 19th and early 20th century China and Japan. Focusing on gender formation, the chapters explore the changing constructs of masculinities and femininities in China and Japan from the early modern up to the 1930s. Chapters focus on the dynamism that links the remodeling of t…
The Tale of Light Snow: Pastiche, Epistolary Fiction and Narrativity Verbal and Visual
This article examines the early printings of a kana-zōshi, Usuyuki monogatari, from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The text is a pastiche of earlier works, most especially the Heian-period Ise monogatari, and an early edition uses illustrations from the 1608 Saga-bon Ise monogatari wholesale. The article examines whether the function of such visual and verbal quotation can be called parodic, and explores the role of narrativi…
Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation
Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation traces—through the visual and literary record—the reception and use of the tenth-century literary romance through the seventeenth century. Ise monogatari (The Ise Stories) takes shape in a salon of politically disenfranchised courtiers, then transforms later in the Heian period (794-1185) into a key subtext for autobiographical writings by female aristocrats. In the twelf…
Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation
Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation traces-through the visual and literary record-the reception and use of the tenth-century literary romance through the seventeenth century. Ise monogatari (The Ise Stories) takes shape in a salon of politically disenfranchised courtiers, then transforms later in the Heian period (794-1185) into a key subtext for autobiographical writings by female aristocrats. In the twelf…
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving insight into both canonical texts and many lesser known, popular genres, from centuries-old folk literature to the detective fiction of modern times. …
The Gender of Wakashu and the Grammar of Desire
Ono no Komachi
The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father
This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the "father-daughter dynamic" in Japanese female literary experience. Its contributors examine the ways in which women have been placed politically, ideologically, and symbolically as "daughters" in a culture that venerates "the father." They weigh the impact that this daughterly position has had on both the performance and production of women's writing from the classical period to…
Japanese History and Culture (20 works) · Art (19 works) · History (16 works) · Literature (15 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 works) · Law (5 works)