Serial Number 579      
         
     
  Kazuko Mizoguchi: Sublime as “Beginning”
The Secret Ruse in Arendt’s Three-Part Work The Life of the Mind		  
  Kan’ya Masui: Hai-xi Nü-zhi（海西女直）in the Late Ming Dynasty
and the Imperial Rescript System		  
  Yuko Nakagawa: Henry James’s Portrayal of an Individual in the Society
of Mass Consumption: Strether’s Acquisition of “Taste”
in The Ambassadors 		 
  Miyoko Kawashima: Artist Heroine Mick Kelly as a Freak  
  Ryozo Wada: A Study on the Cultural Characteristics and
Regional Differences of American Nut Food Culture
 		 
     
 
  March 2003  
     
  Edited by
The Literary Association of Ritsumeikan University Kyoto, Japan