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X-WR-CALNAME:Glynne Walley: "Virgin Purity Assailed By Scurrilous Rumors: I
 nterpreting Hakkenden in Meiji Japan"
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture presented by USC Shinso Ito Center for Ja
 panese Religions and Culture.\n\nEight Dogs (Hakkenden\, serialized 1814-1
 842) by Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848) was one of the mid-19th century’s mos
 t popular and influential novels. In this talk\, Walley (University of Ore
 gon) will be exploring a significant case of interpretation of Eight Dogs 
 by Meiji writer Kitamura Tōkoku (1868-94). In an essay entitled “Virgin
  Purity\,” written for a magazine aimed at young women\, he holds up one
  of the novel’s protagonists as a paragon of chastity\, integrity\, and 
 virtue. Ironically\, however\, his essay was inspired by a popular traditi
 on of reading this character in precisely the opposite way – a tradition
  alluded to in the very pages of the magazine for which he was writing. Th
 e tension underlying Tōkoku’s essay highlights the problematics of inte
 rpreting popular fiction in late 19th century Japan. Can didactic stories 
 be entertaining? Can entertaining stories be morally edifying and intellec
 tually respectable? How do we decide?\n\n\nGlynne Walley is Assistant Prof
 essor of Japanese Literature at the University of Oregon. He received his 
 PhD from Harvard University in 2009. He specializes in popular fiction of 
 the late 18th and early 19th centuries\, and is currently working on a boo
 k-length study of Eight Dogs (Hakkenden)\, a masterpiece of the early 19th
  century Japanese novel. He has also translated several works of contempor
 ary Japanese popular fiction\, including Suzuki Kōji’s Ring series.\n\n
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SUMMARY:Glynne Walley: "Virgin Purity Assailed By Scurrilous Rumors: Interp
 reting Hakkenden in Meiji Japan"
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 rilous_rumors_interpreting_hakkenden_in_meiji_japan
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