J. Keith Vincent teaches Japanese and comparative literature at Boston University. Together with Alan Tansman he has co-edited a selection of new essays on Sōseki, originally written in English, that will appear in the Japanese journal Bungaku (December 2014). He is the author of Two-Timing Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in Modern Japanese Fiction (2012) and his translation of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s novel Devils in Daylight is forthcoming from New Directions.
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Virtual Roundtable on
“Description in the Novel”
This roundtable on description in the novel took place on May 3, 2016, at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. Concluding the inaugural year of the Novel Theory Seminar, the roundtable featured presentations by Wai Chee Dimock, Heather Love, William Mills Todd III, J. Keith Vincent, and Cynthia Wall. To solicit brief position papers […]
What Makes a “True Novel”?
Minae Mizumura’s A True Novel is an utterly absorbing love story set against the broad backdrop of pre- and postwar Japan. It tells the story of Taro Azuma, who grows up as an orphan in grinding poverty. As a young child he comes into the orbit of two grand families, the Shigemitsus and the Saegusas, […]
