Symposium: Authorship, Collectivity, Community

International Symposium/Workshop in Japanese Literary and Visual Studies

Symposium: Authorship, Collectivity, Community

Session 1: 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Haruo Shirane (Columbia U.), “Authorship and Collective Production: Orality, Text, and Canon Formation”
Akira Takagishi (U. of Tokyo), “Medieval Art, Patronage, and Inter-Contextuality”

Session 2: 11:00 AM – 12 AM

Tomi Suzuki (Columbia U.), “‘Author-Function’ in Modern Japan: From Continuum to Differentiation in Translation/Adaptation/Creation”
Hirokazu Toeda (Waseda U.), “Constructing a Portrait of the Literary God: Media and Literary Authors in Japan, 1920s-1940s”