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SQUIRES Todd
Major in Global Studies | Professor |
Last Updated :2024/08/31
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異文化理解
文学研究入門
日本文学を読む
東アジア文学
日本文学特論
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In this seminar, students will learn about how to read and interpret literary texts and then apply close reading techniques to write critically about works of literature. In the first semester, we will read various types of literature (poetry, drama and fiction) from a wide range of cultures. Students will be required to read and discuss texts in small groups and write a number of reaction papers. In the second semester, we will studying literary criticism examining its key theories and approaches. Included in this sill be semiotics, deconstruction, modernism and postmodernism, gender analysis, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. In doing so we will read the works of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Judith Butler among others. These theoretical texts will be supplemented by selected literary texts. Students will be required to write several precis to demonstrate their understanding of the texts and their application to the interpretation of literature. In the third semester, students will begin their research projects which will consist of a close reading of one or more works of literature and critically interpreting the selected literature. The final project for this seminar will be a written paper based upon this research and an oral presentation of their research.
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J-Global ID
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異文化理解
文学研究入門
日本文学を読む
東アジア文学
日本文学特論
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Paper
- The Hero’s Journey in Late-Medieval Japanese NarrativeTodd SquiresMan & Universe 127 - 133 2021/06 [Refereed]
This paper looks at medieval interpretations of the prototypical heroic narrative. Heroic narrative was employed as a template by storytellers during the Sengoku period as a way for disseminating ideas of national unity through shared cultural stories. After discussing the idea of heroic narrative the paper uses "Yuriwaka Daijin" as an example of how this process took place. - Dehistoricizing Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese TV EpicsTodd SquiresMan & Universe 5 (1) 181 - 187 2019/04 [Refereed]
- (Re)visioning Masculinity in Japanese Historical TV EpicsTodd SquiresMan & Universe 4 (1) 2018/02 [Refereed]
- Anxiety and Foreign Language Learning: Toward an Approach from Psychoanalytic TheoryTodd SquiresMan & Universe 3 (1) 57 - 61 2017/02 [Refereed]
- The Foreign Gaze and the Desire to Acquire EnglishTodd SquiresMan & Universe 2 2016/02 [Refereed]
- The Lacanian Gaze and the Desire to Acquire EnglishTodd SquiresMan and Universe 1 30 - 36 2015/02 [Refereed]
MISC
- Squires Todd Kiniki University Center for Liberal Arts and Foreign Language Education Journal 2- (1) 287 -306 2012
- Focalization Strategies and the Ideological Positioning of the Author and Reader in Learner's Narratives of Classroom Activitiesトッド スクワイヤーズ Kinki University English Journal (6) 67 -87 2010
- Integrating Effective Vocabulary Learning into Curricular Objectives in University-Level ESP Coursesトッド スクワイヤーズ Kinki University English Journal (5) 31 -52 2010
- Squires Todd Kinki University English Journal (3) 65 -86 2009
- Squires Todd Osaka Women's University Journal (5) 87 -106 2009
- Evaluating and Improving Vocabulary Learning Tasks in ESPトッド スクワイヤーズ CamTESOL Conference on English Language Teaching: Selected Papers (4) 64 -72 2008
- A Materialist Approach to Learner’s Narratives (Part 1)トッド スクワイヤーズ Kinki University English Journal (1) 103 -118 2008
- Students’ Narratives of Classroom Activities: Genre and Style in the Construction of the Subjectトッド スクワイヤーズ; Osaka Women's University; Osaka Women's University Proceedings of the JALT Conference 2006 255 -266 2007
- Squires Todd Osaka Women's University Journal (3) 25 -43 2007
- Good Practices for ESP Programs in Japanese Post-Secondary Institutionsトッド スクワイヤーズ; Ritsumeikan University The Language Teacher 30- (9) 15 -19 2006
- Construction of Subjectivity in Learners’ Motivation Narrativesトッド スクワイヤーズ; Human International University Proceedings of the JALT Conference 2005 185 -198 2006
- Using a Consciousness-raising Task to Learn Register-Appropriate Vocabulary in a Technical Writing Assignmenトッド スクワイヤーズ The Language Teacher 29- (7) 35 -37 2005
- Classroom Implications of Authentic Listening Tasks on Standardized Proficiency Tests of Academic Englishトッド スクワイヤーズ On Cue 12- (1) 4 -17 2004
- When, While & Asトッド スクワイヤーズ TUJ Studies in Applied Linguistics 40- 151 -161 2004
- Simple Past, Present Perfect & Adverbial Phrases in Discourseトッド スクワイヤーズ TUJ Studies in Applied Linguistics 40- 58 -68 2004
- Verb Knowledge and its Effects on Writing: An Exploratory Study of Lower-Level Proficiency L2 Writers in an EAP Programトッド スクワイヤーズ; Doshisha Women's; University High School TUJ Studies in Applied Linguistics 39- 44 -64 2003
- Learners’ Perceptions of Listening Comprehension Test Tasksトッド スクワイヤーズ TUJ Studies in Applied Linguistics (36) 1 -17 2003