Yoshitada Naito : The Logic and Impasse of Theories of National Literature
　　− The Language Dealing with the Imperial System −

Ikuyo Matsumoto : For Cultural History Studies of Medieval Japan
　　− On the Cultural Differences in Historical Narrative −

Yoshihiko Murashima : Shallow Message and Deep Message in Moral Teaching

Yuko Nakagawa : Frances E.W.Harper's Iola Leroy as a Novel of the “Woman's Era”

Mikiko Murata : Between the Fear and the Glory
　　− When People Die on the Border They Call It a Happy Death −

Chen Zhen : Tess in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles
　　−Victim of Social Prejudice and Male Dominance in Victorian Patriarchal Society −

Shigemi Nakagawa : The“Blindness”of Visuality
　　−Tawada Yoko's Experiment with Language in ‘Traveling Naked Eye’ −

Yoshiyuki Tomoda : Kobo Abe and Hiroshi Teshigahara's The Pitfall
　　− Between the Historical Record and Illusionary Fiction −

Tomofumi Yoshimi : An Interpretation of Oshii Mamoru's Innocence
　　 − From the Difference between 2D and 3D −