Associate Professor Roy Starrs

Chapter in Book - Research

Starrs, R. (2020). Mishima, Bowie and the anti-metaphysics of the mask. In J. Curcio (Ed.), Masks: Bowie and artists of artifice. (pp. 74-92). Bristol, UK: Intellect Books.

Starrs, R. (2018). Japan's perennial new man: The liberal and fascist incarnations of Masamichi Rōyama. In J. Dagnino, M. Feldman & P. Stocker (Eds.), The "new man" in radical right ideology and practice, 1919-1945. (pp. 193-214). London, UK: Bloomsbury.

Starrs, R. (2018). Japanese poetry and the aesthetics of disaster. In A. M. Nguyen (Ed.), New essays in Japanese aesthetics. (pp. 285-298). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Starrs, R. (2016). La estética Zen de Muga (Ni-Ego) en el proyecto Renga de Octavio Paz. In R. Guedea (Ed.), Países en tránsito: Estudios de literatura comparada. (pp. 81-101). Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.

Starrs, R. A. (2014). Anonymous: Kojiki [Record of ancient matters]. In The literary encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company. Retrieved from http://www.staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35240

Starrs, R. (2014). Cultural responses to disaster in Japan. In R. Starrs (Ed.), When the tsunami came to shore: Culture and disaster in Japan. (pp. 1-20). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Starrs, R. (2012). Japanese modernism reconsidered. In R. Starrs (Ed.), Rethinking Japanese modernism. (pp. 3-36). Leiden, The Netherlands: Global Oriental.

Starrs, R. (2011). Introduction: Politics and religion in Japan. In R. Starrs (Ed.), Politics and religion in modern Japan: Red sun, white lotus. (pp. 1-27). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Starrs, R. (2011). From Mishima to aum: Religio-political violence in late twentieth-century Japan. In R. Starrs (Ed.), Politics and religion in modern Japan: Red sun, white lotus. (pp. 240-277). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Starrs, R. (2011). Prince Shōtuku and Japan's ‘China complex’. In J. Fengyuan, L. Jinghua & S. Bouterey (Eds.), Cultural interactions and interpretations in a global age. (pp. 29-39). Christchurch, New Zealand: Canterbury University Press.

Starrs, R. A. (2010). Naoya Shiga. In The literary encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company. Retrieved from http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12901

Starrs, R. (2009). Masatomo [Monkey and Crabs ]; Ichiriki [Katatasu muri (snail)]; Maker Unknown [Okami to uchikubi (A wolf with a chopped human head)]. In R. Notman & L. Cullen (Eds.), Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. (pp. 94). Dunedin, New Zealand: Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Starrs, R. (2009). Nashonarisuto toshite no Rafukadio Haan. In H. Sukehiro (Ed.), Haan no hito to shuhen. (pp. 608-630). Tokyo: Shinyosha.

Starrs, R. (2008). Ink traces of the dancing calligraphers: Zen-Ei Sho in Japan today. In H. Johnson & C. Jerry Jaffe (Eds.), Performing Japan: Contemporary expressions of cultural identity. (pp. 11-33). Folkestone, UK: Global Oriental.

Starrs, R. A. (2008). Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972). In The literary encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company. Retrieved from http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12091

Starrs, R. A. (2008). Yukio Mishima (1925-1970). In The literary encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company. Retrieved from http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12197

Starrs, R. (2006). Shintō versus Buddhism in the late work of Mishima Yukio. In L. Jinghua, K. Henshall & X. Hong (Eds.), Ethnic identities and linguistic expressions: Languages, literatures and cultural interaction in an age of globalization. (pp. 306-324). Beijing, China: Peoples Press.

Starrs, R. (2004). Nation and region in the work of Dazai Osamu. In R. Starrs (Ed.), Japanese cultural nationalism: At home and in the Asia Pacific. (pp. 88-98). Kent, England: Global Oriental.

Starrs, R. (2004). Introduction. In R. Starrs (Ed.), Japanese cultural nationalism: At home and in the Asia Pacific. (pp. 1-22). Kent, England: Global Oriental.

Starrs, R. A. (2001). Introduction. In R. Starrs (Ed.), Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization. (pp. 19-35). Richmond, UK: Curzon Press.

Starrs, R. A. (2001). Girisha to Indo no aida de: bunka-teki junreisha toshite no Mishima Yukio. In T. Inoue (Ed.), Sekai no Naka no Mishima Yukio. (pp. 95-113). Tokyo: Bensei Publishers.

Starrs, R. A. (2001). The Sea of Fertility as a National-Historical Novel. In R. Starrs (Ed.), Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization. (pp. 347-358). Richmond, UK: Curzon Press.

Starrs, R. A. (2000). In search of the great Meiji novel: from Ukigumo to Yoake mae. In V. Mackie, A. Skoutarides & A. Tokita (Eds.), Coloniality, Postcoloniality and Modernity in Japan. (pp. 197-217). Clayton: Monash Asia Institute.

Starrs, R. A. (2000). Girisha to Indo no aida: bunkateki junreisha toshite no Mishima. In T. Inoue, T. Matsumoto & H. Sato (Eds.), Sekai no naka no Mishima Yukio. (pp. 95-113). Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan.

Starrs, R. A. (1998). Writing the National Narrative: Changing Attitudes Towards Nation-Building Among Japanese Writers, 1900-1930. In S. Minichiello (Ed.), Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930. (pp. 206-227). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

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Chapter in Book - Other

Starrs, R. (2006). An artless art, a selfless self [Shiga Naoya (1883-1971)] [Reprint from An artless art: The Zen aesethetic of Shiga Naoya, a critical study with selected translations, pp. 84-117. Surrey, England: Japan Library, 1998]. In T. J. Shoenberg & L. J. Trudeau (Eds.), Twentieth-century literary criticism. (pp. 221-236). Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale.

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