International Poe Bibliography in Japan No. 3 (April 2014-March 2017)
Fukushima, Shoichiro. “The City’s Abyss: From Poe’s ‘The Man of the Crowd’ to Melville’s ‘Bartleby,The Scrivener’” (Japanese). The Journal of Cultural Sciences (Ritsumeikan University) 634(2014): 223-32.
This paper examines Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd” and Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener”
to elucidate the relationship between Poe’s and Melville’s representations of the modern city,
a subject that has hitherto not received much attention. Focusing on their urban space not as
landscape but as a torn and discontinuous terrain, the paper contends that the trace ofalterity

intheinvisible

cityrepresents

theabyssofindustrial

capitalism

innineteenth-century American literature.
Hirano, Yukihiko. “The Philosophy of Adaptation: On Lou Reed, ‘The Raven’” (Japanese).

Metropolitan: A Journal of Criticism (Tokyo Metropolitan University) 57 (2015): 63-74.
This paper compares two versions of “The Raven,” that is, the original version by Poe and theadaptation by the American Rock musician Lou Reed, analyzing some textual differences
between them to explore the implication of Reed's adaptation.
Ikesue, Yoko. “Dead Man Talking: Reading ‘My Adventure of Edgar Allan Poe’ and ‘The Grave ofFinguala Ethelind’ by Julian Hawthorne” (Japanese). Eds. Narita, Masahiko, Naochika Takao,Takuya Nishitani. Hawthorne's Literary Heritage: The Changing Faces of Romance andHistory. Tokyo: Kaibunsha, 2016. 309-30.
This essay corroborates the significance of Julian Hawthorne, the eldest son of Nathaniel
Hawthorne, as a literary legacy. By reading his two gothic short stories, “My Adventure ofEdgar Allan Poe” and “The Grave of Finguala Ethelind,” this essay reveals the multiple facesof Julian as a biographer, a son of a great literary figure, and a creator of the genre of theAmerican vampire.
_____. “The Power of a Stylus of Iron: The Trajectory of Edgar Allan Poe as a Magazinist”(Japanese). Eds. Kobayashi Hidemi and Kotaro Nakagaki. Expansion of Reader's Networkand Transition of Literary Circumstances. Tokyo: Otowashobo-Tsurumishoten, 2017.
192-210.
This essay traces the life of Poe as a Magazinist who struggled to own literary magazines. By
considering his roles and tasks as the editor of several magazines and transnational copyrightlaws in the nineteenth-century, this essay examines how Poe tried to gain readers and what heendeavored and deliberated about in order to achieve this goal.
_____. “Commercialized and Fictionalized: Chasing the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe” (Japanese).

Harmonia (Kyoto City University of Arts) 46 (2016): 25-38.
It is well-known that Poe has achieved universal popularity in gothic fiction, contemporarycinema, and classical or popular music. According to successive recent discoveries of novel
resources, his image has now been revisited and revised in some political, cultural, as well as
biographical contexts. This paper demonstrates how Poe’s image has been fabricated andproduced on indivisible biographical facts and those in his fiction by corroboratively rereading
his works and biographies.
_____. “The Composition of the Landscape Garden by Edgar Allan Poe: Passing through ‘The Domainof Arnheim’ into ‘Landor's Cottage.’” Journal of English Literature (Otani University) 43(2017): 1-10.
The purpose of this paper is the exploration of the philosophy of composition focusing on how
the landscape garden ought to be visualized in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Landscape Garden,”and reading though the latter half of “The Domain of Arnheim” without the concept ofWilderness and “Landor’s Cottage” with a simple life. In the second section, I review thedevelopment of Japanese studies of Poe’s landscape sketches.
_____. trans. “Shadow,” “The Devil in the Belfry,” and “A Tale of the Ragged Mountains” (Japanese).

E. A. Poe. Pocket Masterpieces. 9. Eds. Yukiko Konosu and Kazuki Sakuraba. Tokyo: Shuei-sha,2016. 43-72.
This book is the latest translation of Poe’s works in Japan. Ikesue translates three shortstories, collaborates in editing with Konosu and Sakuraba, and provides annotations, achronological table and pictures taken by herself.
Itoh, Shoko. Dismal Swamp and the American Renaissance: Poe and the Legacy of the Dark Canon(Japanese). Tokyo: Otowashobo-Tsurumishoten, 2017. xii + 323 pages.
This book consists of five parts and fourteen chapters with a Preface and Afterword
comprising the author’s Poe studies for thirty years since her first book, The Road to Arnheim(1986). It focuses on the crucial role of the Dismal Swamp as an imaginative and ecologicalorigin of the poetic world of Poe as well as a historically important site of revolutionarydocuments of an alternative American Renaissance. It also explores the imaginative andspecific political sense of place of the Great Dismal Swamp in Dred by Harriet Beecher Stoweand Poe’s works, including “The Lake,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “Hop Frog,” aswell as Thoreau’s indulgence in many swamps in Concord, in a series of American alternative
voices in the age of the American Renaissance.
_____. “Poe and Posthuman Ecology in the Post-Apocalyptic Dialogues.” Poe Studies (Poe Society ofJapan) 8 (2016): 29-44.
It was not until the beginning of the twenty-first century that Edgar Allan Poe’s works werestudied from the viewpoint of ecology or ecocriticism. But in the twenty-first century, researchon “ecocriticism and Poe” has appeared. This paper traces the growth of these studies andproposes a new aspect of ecocritical interpretation on Poe in the following steps: first,pioneering studies on Poe, ecology, and ecocriticism in the twenty-first century; second,“Secondary Nature,” postnature, and posthuman characters in Poe’s works; finally, Poe’sprophesy of ecological catastrophe and material survival in his postapocalyptic stories.
_____. “Immortality of the Protagonists of the American Renaissance: Fanshawe, Dupin, and Auster”(Japanese). Eds. Narita, Masahiko, Naochika Takao, Takuya Nishitani. Hawthorne's Literary

Heritage: The Changing Faces of Romance and History. Tokyo: Kaibunsha, 2016. 215-38.
Paul Auster shares the same themes and motives with those of American Renaissancewriters, attracted by Hawthorne’s Fanshawe and Poe’s Dupin. This paper tries to clarify theimportance for Auster of Hawthorne’s earliest and failed work, and how deeply Poe’s detective
hero, Dupin, gives shape to Auster’s portrait of the postmodern protagonist.
Kishi, Masayuki. “Ignored Playwriting and Drama Reviews: Poe’s Performance and Its Evaluation inAmerican Drama” (Japanese). Poe Studies (Poe Society of Japan) 7 (2015): 49-68.
Poe is not addressed very much in American drama studies. There are quite a few plays andfilms featuring Poe’s novels or Poe the novelist. At the same time, his playwriting and drama
reviews are seldom discussed by American drama researchers. Bearing this situation in mind,
this paper examines Poe’s only dramatic work, “Politian” (1835), his American drama
criticism “The American Drama” (1845), and several of his drama reviews by referring to themovements and trends in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama. Thus, thepaper explores and elucidates Poe’s performance as a playwright/drama critic and its
evaluation in American theatre and drama studies.

Kono, Tomoko. “The Economy of ‘Perverseness’ and Its ‘Supererogation’: Merciless Cruelty Beyond
the Reach of the Law of Reason” (Japanese). Poe Studies (Poe Society of Japan) 8 (2016):
64-75.
This paper presents a psychoanalytic reading of Poe’s stories of “perverseness” and explores
the irrationality of the protagonists who are confined in the closed system of language. The
paper also explicates Poe’s definition of “supererogation” in these stories, indicating thatcruelty lies in transgressing the normative law of reason.
Murayama, Kiyohiko. The Vengeance of Edgar Allan Poe (Japanese). Tokyo: Miraisha, 2014. x + 243
pages.
This book is a collection of essays on assorted short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. An appendix
gives an exploration of unrecognized comparability between Poe and Theodore Dreiser.
Interpreted from an angle attuned to the ubiquitous irony in Poe’s fiction, many stories cometo take on the appearance of a revenge drama. The schemes for avengement set up without
notice in Poe’s tales are carried out by figuratively letting loose indignation or ressentiment
against the literary world, literary snobs including Poe himself, or occasionally even society
at large. Delving into the hidden theme of vengeance should thus prove to shed light upon theneglected socio-historical dimension in the short stories by Poe.
Nishiyama, Keiko. “Comedy of the Undead Body: Laughter and the Uncanny in Poe” (Japanese).

Journal of the Society of English and American Literature (Kwansei Gakuin University) 59(2015): 99-116.
This paper examines how the funny and comical in Poe’s satirical tales share uncanninesswith the tales of fear and terror, and explores the possible link between the seemingly
opposite genres. The tales examined are ones which deal with undead characters who survive
eye-gouging, mutilation, hanging and beheading: “Loss of Breath,” “A Predicament” and “TheMan that was Used Up.”
Okamoto, Teruyuki. “A Writer Who Turned Down France: ‘The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor
Fether’ and Transatlantic Discourse on the French Revolution.” Journal of the Society ofEnglish and American Literature (Kwansei Gakuin University) 59(1) (2015): 153-75.
This paper focuses primarily on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor
Fether” (1845), aiming to reconsider Poe’s relationship with France. Many discourses on theFrench Revolution existed on both sides of the Atlantic around the time the story waspublished. Magazines from the Antebellum South also carried articles in which racial fear isrendered through abhorrence of the French Revolution. This paper reveals how “Tarr andFether” is influenced by transatlantic discourse and that Poe himself shared Southern enmity
toward France.
Sakuma, Mikayo. “Edgar Allan Poe and Isolationism: His Mysterious Years in New York.” Baltimore

Post-Examiner. 5 May 2015, http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/edgar-allan-poe-andisolationism-his-mysterious-years-in-new-york/2015/05/05/.
This essay examines Poe’s success in New York journalism by recounting The Narrative ofArthur Gordon Pym as his biographical isolationism. By analyzing political indications in Pymand relating them to his position in New York journalism, this essay explores thecontradictory relationship between literature and politics in nineteenth-century America.
Tanokuchi, Shogo. “Poe’s and Melville’s Panoramic ‘Amphitheatre’: Poetics of the Sketch in ‘The
Domain of Arnheim’ and ‘The Piazza’” (Japanese). Poe Studies (Poe Society of Japan) 7 (2015):
3-22.
This paper aims to compare the esthetics of Poe’s landscape sketches and those of Herman
Melville. By examining Poe’s sketches in “The Domain of Arnheim” and “Landor’s Cottage” andMelville’s representations in “The Piazza,” I argue that Poe’s and Melville’s panoramic views ofnature, represented as amphitheater, function as an implicit criticism of the imperial desire ofYoung America.
Tatsumi, Takayuki. “The Double Task of the Translator: Poe and His Japanese Disciples.” TranslatedPoe: Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe. Eds. Emron Esplin and Margarida Vale de Gato.
Maryland: Lehigh UP, 2014. 163-174.
Drawing on the comparative literary approach cultivated by Ken Inoue and Noriko Mizuta
and developing adaptation studies pioneered by Mark Silver, the author attempts to clarify
the way Japanese writers ranging from Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Tanizaki Jun'Ichiro, andEdogawa Rampo through Kiyoshi Kasai interpreted and re-appropriated Poe, ending up with
their own idiosyncratic style.
_____. “Twenty-first Century Interactions between Poe and Rampo” (Japanese). Hayakawa’s

Mystery Magazine (Aug. 2014): 78-85.
Walter Benjamin aptly considered Poe's mysterious but pre-existentialist story “The Man of

the Crowd” (1840) as an X-ray photo of detective fiction. Indeed, this story was written
exactly a year earlier than the first modern detective story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”(1841). Moreover, the author supposes that it is “The Man of the Crowd” as a flaneur talethat had a tremendous impact upon the Japanese founding father of detective fiction,
Edogawa Rampo, especially his masterpiece, “The Stalker in the Attic” (1925). From thisperspective, the author reconsiders the literary historical interactions between Poe andRampo.
_____. “Deconstruction Under Nixon's Presidency: Poe, De Man, Hofstadter” (Japanese). Gendai

Shiso (Feb. 2015): 134-153.
It is well-known that the father of deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, contributed much to Poestudies through his controversy with Jacques Lacan over Poe's “The Purloined Letter.”
However, what made deconstruction popular in North America is Derrida's friendship withPaul de Man, who showed deep interest in President Nixon's Watergate scandal, another caseof the purloined letter. This paper examines the extent to which deconstruction is intertwinedwith political conflicts during the 1970s.
_____. trans. A Descent into the Maelström. The Light-House (Collected Short Stories 3: SF &Fantasy) (Japanese). Tokyo: Shincho-sha, 2015.
This anthology is comprised of the following seven science fiction stories written by Poe andnewly translated by the editor: “A Descent into Maelstrom,” “The Man That Was Used Up,”
“The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether,” “Mellonta Tauta,” “Maelzel's Chess-Player,”“The Domain of Arnheim,” and “The Light-House.”_____. trans. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Japanese). E. A. Poe. Pocket

Masterpieces. 9. Ed. Yukiko Konosu and Kazuki Sakuraba. Tokyo: Shuei-sha, 2016. 479-745.
The one and only novel written by Poe has scarcely been translated into Japanese. In thetwentieth century only two Japanese versions of Pym were available: Seiji Tanizaki's(Shunyodo, 1956) and Tadaaki Onishi's (Tokyo-Sogensha, 1974). However, the revival of Pym
in the 1980s promoted by Burton Pollin and Richard Kopley helped readers comprehend thisenigmatic novel more accurately. This is the reason why Tatsumi decided to newly translate

Pym into Japanese in the twenty-first century.
_____. “The Genre Named ‘Adaptation’” (Japanese). The Poe Society of Japan Newsletter 13. (2016):1.

A brief note on the recent publications of Writerpunk Press, such as: Sound and Fury:

Shakespeare Goes Punk and Merely This and Nothing More: Edgar Allan Poe Goes Punk. A
seemingly typical mashup, this series is important, for the very project reflects the rise ofadaptation studies of Poe.
Usa, Kyoko. “Emily Dickinson and E. A. Poe: Works for Immortality” (Japanese). The Journal ofSocial Sciences and Humanities (Tokyo Metropolitan University) 503 (2016): 47-60.
This article is one section of “Reading Emily Dickinson’s ‘Some –Work for Immortality—’ inComparison with Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe,” written by Kaname Yoshida, Kotaro
Kawasaki, and Kyoko Usa. The attitude toward Immortality implied in Dickinson’s work,“Some –Work for Immortality—’ (F 536 / J 406) and in Poe’s poems, “A Dream within a Dream”
and “Eldorado” are compared in the context of the Gold Rush in California. Furthermore, asignificantly different perspective on “Eternity” in their works is examined.