From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 4:25 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Prof. Michael F. Marra (1956-2011)
> H-ASIA
> February 25, 2011
>
> Professor Michael/Michele F. Marra (1956-2011)
> ************************************************************************
> Ed note: Shortly after the news of the death of Michael Marra was posted
> on H-Japan, my BAS colleague Frank Joseph Shulman sent in a note which
> expanded on Professor Marra, noting that he had, upon becoming an American
> citizen changed his given name from the Italian Michele to Michael. I
> appreciate Frank's assistance and the examples of bibliographic notice
> which may eliminate any confusion as to there being two people rather than
> one. Professor Marra had a distinguished career and his passing takes
> from us a major contributor to Japanese studies in the US. FFC
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Janet R. Goodwin <jan@cs.csustan.edu>
>
> It is my sad duty to report the death of Michael F. Marra, professor of
> Japanese literature, aesthetics, and hermeneutics at UCLA. An excellent
> and prolific scholar, Prof. Marra was also a good friend to many of us in
> the field and an outstanding teacher. A full obituary will be published
> as soon as it becomes available.
>
> --Janet Goodwin, H-Japan co-editor
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Frank Joseph Shulman <fshulman@umd.edu>
>
> Thank you very much for the posting about Michael Marra's death. I, for
> one, appreciate having this information disseminated to a large audience.
>
> May I suggest that the obituary and any other future announcements on
> H-JAPAN and H-ASIA include his TWO names: Michael and Michele. Marra was
> born in Italy in 1956 and named Michele. After becoming a U.S. citizen,
> he legally changed his name to Michael. See the record for him in the
> Library of Congress Authorities File:
>
> http://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?AuthRecID=1648444&v1=1&HC=1&SEQ=20110224161752&PID=qahwA-h8IlZqGfsS5yJNc-3VBDe
>
> The books that he published through 1999 appeared under the name
> "Michele": See the Library of Congress online catalog:
> http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search%5FArg=Marra%20Michael&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&CNT=100&PID=zwhGAXXlF-BaiE8uNFBPXFM_nZa&BROWSE=1&HC=12&SID=1
> as well as the library catalogs of other academic and resaerch libraries
> that contain records for his books. The University of Maryland College
> Park Libraries, for example, hold seven of his books:
>
> The aesthetics of discontent : politics and reclusion in medieval Japanese
> literature / Michele Marra. [1991]
>
> A history of modern Japanese aesthetics / translated and edited by Michael
> F. Marra. [2001]
>
> Japanese hermeneutics : current debates on aesthetics and interpretation /
> edited by Michael F. Marra. [2002]
>
> Kuki Shuzo : a philosopher's poetry and poetics / translated and edited by
> Michael F. Marra. [2004]
>
> Modern Japanese aesthetics : a reader / Michele Marra. [1999]
>
> The poetics of Motoori Norinaga : a hermeneutical journey / translated and
> edited by Michael F. Marra. [2007]
>
> Representations of power: the literary politics of medieval Japan/ Michele
> Marra. [1993]
>
> The online Bibliography of Asian Studies of the Association for Asian
> Studies, in turn, includes a very large number of bibliographical entries
> under each one of his names. To cite just three examples of each (from
> among many):
>
> Author: Marra, Michael
> Title: Frameworks of meaning: old aesthetic categories and the present
> Citation: In: Ueda, Atsuko; Okada, Richard H., eds. Literature and
> literary theory. West Lafayette, Ind.: Association for for Japanese
> Literary Studies, 2008. vi, 287p. (PAJLS: proceedings of the Association
> for Japanese Literary Studies, vol.9) 153-163
>
> Author: Marra, Michael F.
> Title: Fields of contention: philology (bunkengaku) and the philosophy of
> literature (bungeigaku)
> Citation: In: Fogel, Joshua A.; Baxter, James C., eds. Historiography and
> Japanese consciousness of values and norms. Part 1: people, words, and
> things: cultural exchange among China, Japan, and the West. Part 2:
> historical consciousness in Japanese texts. Kyoto: International Research
> Center for Japanese Studies, 2002. vi, 242p. 197-221
>
> Author: Marra, Michael F.
> Title: The aesthetics of tradition: making the past present
> Citation: In: Sasaki, Ken-ichi, ed. Asian aesthetics. Singapore: NUS
> Press; Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2010. xviii, 309p. 41-55
>
> Author: Marra, Michele
> Title: The conquest of mappo: Jien and Kitabatake Chikafusa
> Citation: Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (Nagoya) 12, no.4 (Dec
> 1985) 319-341
>
> Author: Marra, Michele
> Title: Nativist hermeneutics: the interpretative strategies of Motoori
> Norinaga and Fujitani Mitsue
> Citation: Japan Review: Bulletin of the International Research Center for
> Japanese Studies = Nichibunken (Kyoto) no.10 (1998) 17-52
>
> Author: Marra, Michele
> Title: Marra, Michele. Idealism, Christianity, and poetics: Onishi Hajime;
> accompanied by: Text: There is No Religion in Waka by Onishi Hajime
> Citation: In: Marra, Michele. Modern Japanese aesthetics: a reader.
> Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. x, 322p. 79-92
>
> With my thanks once again,
>
> Frank
>
> Frank Joseph Shulman
> Bibliographer, Editor and Consultant for Reference Publications
> in Asian Studies
> Associate Editor, Bibliography of Asian Studies
> 9225 Limestone Place
> College Park, Maryland 20740-3943 (U.S.A.)
> E-mail: fshulman@umd.edu
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