No. 8 (2005)

Interview

Exploring the Process of Writing: A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams
Beebee, Fay
Trans. Ken-ichi Noda, Masami R. Yuki, Keita Hato-oka

Articles

Nakajima, Kensuke. “Love of Nature in Japan: A Modern Haiku-Poet’s Critical View

Hayama, Gakuto. “History, Nature, and Women: An Ecofeminist Reading of D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow”

Takahashi, Ayako. “Gary Snyder’s ‘The Mountain Sprit’: Animism, Wilderness, Performance”

Roundtable

Reconsidering Ecocriticism
Masami Raker Yuki, Mayumi Toyosato, Yoshiko Kayano, Shin Yamashiro, Ikua Kina, Kazuaki Odani, Shinji Iwamasa

No. 7 (2004)

Articles

Matsuya, Rie. “’How Various, How Luminous, How Devine’ Nature Represented in Rima in W. H. Hudson’s Green Mansions”

Yamashiro, Shin. “The Split of Joshua Slocum: Autobiographic and Anachronistic Elements in Sailing Alone Around the Wrold (1900)”

Sanoki, Yukio. “Also Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac How to Take Pleasure in Nature”

Miura, Shoko. “Rachel Carson’s ‘Material Immorality’ and Melville’s Moby-Dick”

Aihara, Yuko. “A Tree is Nothing: An Ecocritical Reading of Cynthia Ozick’s ‘The Pagan Rabbi’”

Kido, Mitsuyo. “A New and Old Voice in American Nature Writing: An Interview with Alison Hawthorne Deming”

No. 6 (2003)

Symposium: Animism and Literature

Iwai, Hiroshi. “Spiritualism of Natural Surroundings: A Japanese View of Nature and Animism”

Takahashi, Masako. “Animism in Koyahijiri by Izumi Kyoka”

Kina, Ikue. “Animism and Language: A Native American View”

Takahashi, Tsutomu. “Language and Soul in the Works of Michiko Ishimure”

Articles

Ohkawa, Shigero. “Millennialism and Spirituality in the Radical Environmental Movement centered on the case of Earth First!”

Honda, Ranko. “The Concept of Woman and Nature in the Victorian Age”

Hayama, Gakuto. “Nature, Senses, and Worldview”

Baba, Akira. “Beyond Localism: Nature Development and Ethnography on the Sea Islands”

Hatooka, Keita. “Americam Bugs: The Representation of Wildlife in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon”

No. 5 (2002)

Essay

Nakamura, Kumio. “Tokyo Remembers Water: Episodes Abound”

Report on symposium

Iwamasa, Shinji. “What is ‘urban nature’?”

Articles

Akamine, Reiko. “Birds, Sanctuary, Women: The Urban and the Wild in Refuge”

Honda, Ranko. “Nature as Culture: Representations of Nature in the 19th Century Britain”

Kayano, Yoshiko. “Reading Nature in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop”

Kawatani, Hiroko. “A Celebration of the Earth: A New Reading Of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises”

Maekawa, Toshihiro. “Norman Maclean and Ernest Hemingway: The Two Fishings in A River Runs Through It and ‘Big Two-Hearted River’”

No. 4 (2001)

Articles

Wakamatsu, Michiko. “J. M. Synge and Nature: a Quest for Anti-Christian Values in Synge’s Autobiographical Works and Nature Writing”

Sekiguchi, Keiji. “A comparative Study of H. D. Thoreau and Miyazawa Kenji: Their Vegetarianism”

Yamashiro, Shin. “The Beach as a Neutral Ground: Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod and The Tradition of American Beach Narrative”

Schreiner, C. S. “Star Friendship: Ecology in the Writing of Alphonso Lingis”

Yuki, Masami Raker. “National Parks and Nature Writing: Literary Environmental Activism”

Allen, Bruce. “Edo Period Ecological Change and the Wild Boar Famine of 1749”

Nakanishi, Sumi. “Theory of Sympathy in Minakata’s ‘The Origin of the Swallow-Stone Myth’”

No. 3 (2000)

Articles

Itoh, Shoko. “A Comparative Consideration of Japanese System of Studies and Education in Environmental Literature with that of the United States”

Ishihata, Naoki. “From the English Lake District to Nihon Arupusu”

Kumagai, Yumiko. “Prophets of Nature: William Wordsworth’s and Gary Snyder’s Communion with Nature”

Yamakage, Takashi. “’Why the Countryside?’: Voices from The Magic apple Tree and The Living Landscape”

Ford, Anne. “Scalping, Decapitation and Deforestation: Nature/Body Politics in Hardy’s The Woodlanders”

Akamine, Reiko. “Nature and Gender: Mary Austin’s Representation of the Desert”

Maekawa, Toshihiro. “Nick Adams’ Basic Memory of Scenery: Nature in ‘Big Two-Hearted River’”

Hayashi, Nao. “The People Who Go On Living: The Competition for Survival and the Survivors in The Grapes of Wrath”

No. 2 (1999)

Articles

Tsuji, Kazuhiko. “Mark Twain’s View of Nature in ‘Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians’”

Allen, Bruce. “Cape Cod: Writing on the Edge”

Shiota, Hiroshi. “Between Self and River: The Nature of Edward Abbey and Gary Snyder”

Yokota, Yuri. “Landscape and Narratives: A Study of the Wroks of N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko”

Yuki, Masami Raker. “A Preliminary Theory of Acoustic Ecology: Soundscape in Contemporary Literature”

Schreiner, C.S. “Disorderly Imperative: Loren Eiseley and Postmodern Naturalism”

Ford, Anna. “Atwood’s Wilderness Tips: Short Fiction for a Postnatural Age”

Iwai, Hiroshi. “Maintaining the Sense of Nature through Japanese Expressions: Regarding Phonetic Expressions (Onomatopoeia)”

Akamine, Reiko. “Place, Community, Homeland: Ishimure Michiko’s Environmental Philosophy”

Ashizawa, Kazuhiro. “National Parks and Wilderness”

No. 1 (1998)

Articles

Colligan-Taylor, Karen. “Miyazawa Kenji’s Work Invites Ecocriticism”

Sato, Mitsushige. “Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Nature: The Astrology of Anne Bradstreet”

Ozawa, Namie. “The Discord of ‘Economy’ in H.D. Thoreau’s Walden”

Takahashi, Mamoru. “Writers and the Meaning of ‘Walking’”

Nishimura, Yorio. “D’Arcy McNickle: His life and Works”

Allen, Bruce. “The Ecological Philosophy of Ando Shoeki”

Iwai, Hiroshi. “Japanese Views of Nature in Doppo Kunikida’s Musashino”

Takahashi, Tsutomu. “Henry Thoreau in Takada Hiroshi’s Encounter with the Tree”