Academic Staff and Fellows

KOUNO Eiji
Associate Professor Doctor of Philosophy
Department/General Education Division 

Building on the relationship between words and performance, we study the true value of literature as manifested in an era of social media and e-books.

Toward Literature 2.0

Research Area Literature and Thought of Germany and Austria
                                   
Research Interests Literary Performativity
Selected Publications (1) Offenbach Readings as a School of the Implicit Knowledge of Language. On the Borderland between Politics and the Performative Conservatism of Language in Karl Kraus (Austrian Literature 39, 2023)

(2)  "Heine and the consequences" in a performative perspective. A new point of view for Karl Kraus' Heine essay (Heine-Jahrbuch 55, 2016, p.p. 28-45)

3) Die Performativity of the satire by Karl Kraus. For his "written show-art". (in German, duncker & humblot, 2015)
Education
(Undergraduate Course)
Waseda-University (B.A.)
Education
(Master's/Doctral Course)
Waseda-University (M.A., Ph.D)
Office Location 18-S231
E-mail e_kouno(at)kindai.ac.jp
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Academic Staff and Fellows