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Articles:

Angles, Jeffrey.

“Penisism and the Eternal Hole: Homoeroticism and Existential Exploration in the Early Works of Takahashi Mutsuo,” Intersections: Gender, History, and Context in the Asian Context 12 (Dec 2005).

“Interview with Takahashi Mutsuo (Questions by Jeffrey Angles),” Intersections: Gender, History, and Culture in the Asian Context 12 (Dec 2005).

“Hamao Shirō’s ‘The Execution of Ten’ichibō’,” Critical Asian Studies 37.2 (Jun 2005): 305-21 [Critical commentary with translation].

Writing the Love of Boys: Same-Sex Desire in the Literature of Murayama Kaita and Edogawa Ranpo, Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University, 2004. 

“The Heritage of Symbolism: The ‘Aesthetic’ Style of Kitahara Hakushū and Murayama Kaita,” Japanese Poeticity and Narrativity Revisited: Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, ed. Eiji Sekine (West Lafayette, IN: Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2003): 237-63.  

“Watching Commoners, Performing Class: Images of the Common People in The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon,” Nichibunken Japan Review 13 (2001): 33-65.

“Discovering and Textualizing Memory: The Tsuioku Shōsetsu of Naka Kansuke and Takahashi Mutsuo,” Issues of Canonicity and Canon Formation in Japanese Literary Studies: Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, ed. Stephen D. Miller (West Lafayette, IN: Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2001): 389-404.


Covell, Stephen.

Review of Richard M. Jaffe. Neither Monk nor Layman: Clerical
Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. xxii + 288 pp. $42.50
cloth. isbn 0-691-07495-x


_____ and Mark Rowe. “Traditional Buddhism in Contemporary Japan,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 31:2 (2004).

 
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Michitoshi Soga Japan Center
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