Division of Languages and Literature, Dean of the College, and Asian Studies Program Present
Perverse Criticism:
Thinking Literature in Meiji Japan
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Olin Humanities, Room 203
4:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
4:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
Miyabi Goto
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
University of Virginia
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
University of Virginia
Criticism is often considered as an evaluative response to literature. What if, however, criticism arrived before literature in a particular time and space in history? Japan's Meiji period (1868–1912) bore witness to such a perverse ordering of criticism and literature, as criticism actually prepared the notion of “literature” as a modern, independent form of knowledge. By investigating intellectual discursive spaces in late 19th-century Japan, this lecture demonstrates how and why criticism preceded literature.
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Time: 4:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 203