Decoding Paul Muldoon: Poetics and Politics

Decoding Paul Muldoon

Poetics and Politics

  • Ryoji OKUDA / 2009.3
  • JPY 2,500 / duodecimo, paperback, 168 pages
  • bookdesign: Tamon YAHAGI

Paul Muldoon, contemporary poet of Northern Ireland, following Seamus Heaney. Using the concept of “hybridity” as a key, it understands the political hidden in the deep layer of the sideways speech.
（ISBN 9784861101762）

Table of contents

Preface
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Mixed Marriage: the Poetics of Hybridity
CHAPTER 2 Translating Poetry and Politics in Monologues
CHAPTER 3 Transcending the Limits of Language: Imagination and Politics
CHAPTER 4 Artistic Subtlety of Politics: Decoding the Messages in “Madoc-A Mystery”
CHAPTER 5 Emigration and Homesickness
Conclusion
Appendix: Poetry and Politics in Ireland
Selected Bibliography
Index

Author

Ryoji OKUDA
Born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1958. Professor in English at Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Japan.  He is coeditor/author of “Meeting Paul Muldoon” (1994) and cotranslator of “Paul Muldoon: Selected Poems 1968-1983” (Japanese translation, 1996).  Essays include “In Search of Momentary Life: Yeats’s ‘Among School Children’”(Humanity Viewed from Language, 2000), “The dream of Irish Restoration in Dubliners: Joyce’s Messages” (Linguistic Expression and Creativity, 2005). He is currently secretary of the Yeats Society of Japan.

Order this book

 

Social Development, Culture, and Participation: Toward Theorizing Endogenous Development in Tanzania

Social Development, Culture, and Participation

Toward Theorizing Endogenous Development in Tanzania

  • Kumiko SAKAMOTO / 2009.2
  • JPY 6,476 / A5 size, paperback, 550 pages
  • bookdesign: Tamon YAHAGI

Since independence in 1961, Tanzania has tried and tried to develop its own country. We will revise the view of development focusing only on economic indicators and explore the way of endogenous development based on multilateral analyzes of citizens’voices and nature and culture obtained by fieldwork. Mr. Jun Nishikawa praised!

In many societies in Africa and Asia, people are facing the rapid change brought about by modern society while protecting traditional culture and living. As the author worked on the site of Tanzania as a UN official, he made me think deeply about what social development harmonized with local culture is. As a result of this question, this book analyzes how people can participate actively on external development. It is an epoch-making masterpiece that reconstructed the theory of conventional social development from the standpoint of endogenous development focusing on culture based on abundant data. I would like to broadly recommend to people in the South who would like to review development issues with their own eyes.
― Jun, Nishikawa
（ISBN 9784861101748）

Table of contents

Introduction: Social development, culture, and participation
Part I　Development and Culture Reconsidered in Tanzania
Chapter 1　Re-conceptualizing ‘Development’ and the Role of ‘Culture’
Chapter 2　Creation and Diversities of ‘Culture’ in Tanzania
Part II　Social Development with Endogenous Perspective in Tanzania
Chapter 3　Tanzania’s Policies Re-examined: Endogenous perspectives and impacts on social development
Chapter 4　Participation in Development and Culture: From the diverse agencies in Lindi Region
Summary and Conclusions: Toward theorizing endogenous development

Author

Kumiko SAKAMOTO
Associate Professor of the Faculty of international studies at Utsunomiya University. Born in Kyoto, Japan. Graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. She completed the master degree program in the Graduate School of Economics and doctral program in the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific studies at Waseda University. Worked for UNICEF and UNDP Tanzania office, assistant at Waseda University and current position is lecturer at Utsunomiya University.

Order this book

 

Reflections on Chomsky’s Strong Minimalist Thesis: Evolution, UG Residues, and Helen Keller

Reflections on Chomsky’s Strong Minimalist Thesis

Evolution, UG Residues, and Helen Keller

  • Norio SUZUKI / 2007.7
  • JPY 7,619 / A5 size, paperback, 376 pages

Given the conceptual shift involved in evolutionarily viewing UG as the object of explanation, not as an explanatory tool any more, and Chomsky’s strong minimalist thesis as the central concept of minimalist theorizing, this book attempts to explore its implications and consequences in several empirical domains such as acquisition/learnability, narrow syntactic derivation, interfacing, etc. with special emphasis on such notions as economy, optionality, the EPP, UG residues, etc.
（ISBN 9784861105401）

Table of contents

CONTENTS
PREFACE and BEYOND
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 Minimalism and Its Implications for Language Acquisition and Learnability
2 Triggers, Minimalism, and Learnability
3 Universals, Occam’s Razor, and the Strong Minimalist Thesis
4 How the Reality Can Be Compatible with the Strong Minimalist Thesis: Interfacing, Economy, and Variation
5 Two Case Studies in Language Acquisition: Evolution, Efficient Computation, and Learnability
6 What Language is Made From: Helen Keller, Some UG Residues, and the Strong Minimalist Thesis
REFERENCES
AUTHOR INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX

Author

Norio Suzuki
1947：Born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
1980：Finished the Doctoral Course （first half）for English Literature of the Department of Literary Studies, Graduate School of Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
1982：Left School （halfway before finishing the latter half of the above course）.
1982-1985：Full-Time Lecturer, Department of English Literature, Shinwa Women’s College, Kobe, Japan.
1985-1994：Associate Professor, Department of English Literature, Shinwa Women’s College.
1994-2002：Professor, Department of British and American Studies, Kobe Shinwa Women’s University.
2002-Present：Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Human Development and Education, Kobe Shinwa Women’s University.
1988-1989：Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
Publications
Gendai Eibunpo Jiten （Sanseido’s New Dictionay of English Grammar）. 1992. Tokyo: Sanseido. [Participated as author of specific entries].
Studies in Generative Syntax （Seisei-togo-ron Kenkyu）. 1997. Tokyo: Eichosha.
Eigo-gaku Yogo Jiten （A Dictionary of Technical Terms of English Linguistics）. 1999. Tokyo: Sanseido. [Participated as author of specific entries].

Order this book

 

From the Country of Kimonos

From the Country of Kimonos

  • Yuko KOYANO / 2006.12
  • JPY 1,905 / A5 size, hardcover, 224 pages
  • bookdesign: Tamon YAHAGI

B. S. Gordon who wrote the rights of women in the Constitution of Japan and H. Kolein who became a prisoner of the Japanese Army. Chiune Sugihara who issued a visa to the Jews, Japanese culture and war as seen in the eyes of the “world” such as the aesthetics and solidarity that still exists at the Kinkakuji Gion Festival!
（ISBN 4861100917）

Table of contents

AUREATE MEDITATION
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
One of Japan’s great cultural treasures
THE SOUND OF RECTITUDE
Chiune Sugihara
The Japanese diplomat who during W.W. II signed
transit visas allowing thousands of European Jews
to escape the Nazis
A CENTURY-LONG DESIRE
Beate Sirota Gordon
The American woman who was responsible for writing the article of the new Japanese constitution in 1946 guaranteeing equal rights for women
A TOUCH OF SOLACE
Helen Colijn
A Dutch citizen interned by Japanese forces in
Indonesia at the outbreak of W.W. II
AWAKENING IN JULY
The Gion Matsuri
A diary-like account of witnessing the construction of the giant floats for the Gion Matsuri in Kyoto

Author

Yuko KOYANO
Born in Dalian, China in 1946. Graduated from the Department of English literature in Kyoto Women’s Junior College in 1967. Living in America with her family for her husband’s work in 1974-1975 and 1985-1990. She is the author of “From a town on the Hudson”(1996, Tuttle Publishing).

Order this book

 

Kaichu Kaisei

Kaichu Kaisei

  • Naoki DAIMON / 2006.11
  • JPY 1,800 / A5 size landscape, paperback, 98 pages
  • bookdesign: Tamon YAHAGI

A dramatic feast of vividly colored creatures in the vast ocean. Flip through the pages and you’ll find a world of brilliantly colored fishes. A collection of approximately 150 photographs taken in the Nishi Izu and Nansei Islands.

（ISBN 9784861105401 [2nd printing]9784861100901）

Author

Naoki DAIMON
Born in Esashi, Hokkaido in 1948. In November 1994, he began diving and underwater photography. The 52nd Nikkatsu Photographic Exhibition Encouragement Award, JPS (Japan Photographers Association) Exhibition 4 times, 18th Diver Photo Contest Gold Award, 26th Diving World Photo Contest Grand Prix, Earth Sea Photo Contest 2001 2001 Nature Sector Grand Prix.

Order this book

 

Distortion in the Study of Japanese Modern and Contemporary Economic History

Distortion in the Study of Japanese Modern and Contemporary Economic History

  • Mamoru TAKAHASHI, (tr.) Mark Chang / 2006.3
  • JPY 3,333 / duodecimo, paperback, 220 pages

Trying to critically examine the idea that decided policies in the process of modernization of Japan, mainly from the Meiji Restoration, economic history and management history from the Meiji Restoration to the after and the end of the war “From the Meiji to the Showa era: Selection of refraction ” in English.
（ISBN 4861100453）

Table of contents

ChapterⅠ　Meiji Restoration and Japan Modernization Debate
ChapterⅡ　Change in Direction After Russo-Japanese War
ChapterⅢ　The First World War and Industrial Rationalization
ChapterⅣ　Growing Right-wing Tendency,Para-revolution and War
ChapterⅤ　The Japanese Capitalism Debate During and After the War

Author and Translator

Mamoru TAKAHASHI
Born in Osaka, Japan in 1929. Professor of Emeritus at Hirosima University and Fukuyama University, Japan.

Mark Chang
Born in Taiwan. Lecturer of Showa Women’s University. Belonging to The International Cross-Cultural Society, Japan. 

Order this book

 

Beowulf

Beowulf

  • Shuichi HASHIMOTO / 2006.2
  • JPY 2,000 / duodecimo extensional size, hardcover, 140 pages
  • bookdesign: Toshinobu NAGATA

An epic representing Anglo-Saxon literature, “beowulf” . The author reads closely the mysterious text which is said to be made in the 7th century under themes such as “monster” “witch” “dragon”.  This book also considers the relationship with Christianity.
（ISBN 4861100607）

Table of contents

Prologue
Wealhtheow
Grendel
Draconitas in Beowulf
The ‘Thryth-Offa Digression’ in Beowulf
A Historical Survey of Beowulf Studies? From the 19th to the 20th century?
Interpretation of the Line 2390b in Beowulf
Epilogue

Author

Shuichi HASHIMOTO
Born in Tokyo in 1956. He received M.A. degree from Sophia University. Professor of The Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan.

Order this book

 

Kitakami-gawa

Kitakami-gawa

  • Shoko HASIMOTO / 2005.10
  • JPY 3,333 / B5 extentional size, softcover, 208 pages

Shoko Hashimoto, who is a photographer and published a legendary photo album “Lady” which made Iehi Kimura say “it smells”, has captured the landscape and the lives of people of his home town Kitakami River with deep affection and insight for a half century. This is the photograph collection of the photographer who has just single-mindedly polished his expression!
（ISBN 4861100550）

Photographer

Shoko HASIMOTO
Born in Ishinomaki, Miyagi in 1939. He received the new face award of The Photographic Society of Japan for the photo collection “Goze”(Nora Publishing).

Order this book

 

Yu Kun to Rei Chan: Yohga, Monogatari no Hazimari

Yu Kun to Rei Chan

Yohga, Monogatari no Hazimari

  • Midori SUZUKI / 2005.7
  • JPY 1,500 / B5 extentional size, 36 pages

A Yohga is a way of drawing that uses fallen leaves instead of paints. Leaves that withered in the course of nature revive vividly in this story. This is the first leaf picture book with hope for rebirth in which two young people wander into a mysterious.
Word of recommendation
Four years after coming across the picture of fallen leaves, Midori finally realized her dream. This is the world that can be expressed by leaf painting and that is expressed only by it.
– Yohsaiga / Akazaki Kazuo
（ISBN 4861100437）

Author

Midori SUZUKI
Gagoh: Asunaro. From Akita prefecture. She graduated Daito Bunka University, Chinese literature department. Worked for high school in Kisarazu Sogo (formerly Kisarazu Chuo) in Chiba Prefecture. “Mysterious Flower Club” instructor. JLFA Yohga instructor.

Order this book

 

Aisai Kirigami Shiju-hatte

Aisai Kirigami Shiju-hatte

  • Gen KAMAKURA / 2005.3
  • JPY 1,500 / duodecimo, hardcover, 144 pages

Dense joy and dripping darkness – a pair of male and female depicted by scissors and paper. Even though times may be different, men and women’s activities do not change. You can enjoy the funny and comical world of Kirigami. The text from the underground book “Oshidori Neya no Shigusa（Mandarin duck’s bed gesture）”,said to have been published soon after the wolrd war, adds color to the black-and-white space.
（ISBN 4861100259）

Author

Gen KAMAKURA
Artist of Kirigami. Born in Kanagawa in 1943. After retiring a construction company who has worked for many years, he enters production activities. It has a reputation for making use of scissors and expressing a distinctive line with roundness.

Order this book