Marian Ury Explained

Marian Ury
Birth Name:Marian Bloom
Birth Date:October 5, 1932
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Death Date:April 25, 1995 (age 62)
Death Place:Oakland, California, U.S.
Occupation:Literary scholar, college professor, translator

Marian Bloom Ury (October 5, 1932 – April 25, 1995) was an American scholar of medieval Japanese literature. She was a professor in the departments of East Asian languages and comparative literature at the University of California, Davis.

Early life and education

Bloom was born in Chicago and raised in California, the daughter of Louis S. Bloom and Edith Lapin Bloom. She had an older brother, Arnold. Her family was Jewish.[1] [2] She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1953, and completed doctoral studies there.

Career

Ury was a professor of East Asian languages and comparative literature at the University of California, Davis (UCD) from 1969 until 1995. She started a comparative literature courses on Chinese and Japanese literature in 1975[3] and on myths and legends in 1978.[4] In the mid-1980s spoke on Lady Murasaki,[5] and she held a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, to fund her translation of the works of 11th-century Japanese writer Ōe no Masafusa.[6] She played violin with the Oakland Symphony, the Lydian String Quartet,[7] and the De Silva Quartet,[8] and with her husband she commissioned works for the Kronos Quartet.[9]

Publications

Ury's work was published in academic journals including Monumenta Nipponica, Journal of Japanese Studies, The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, and Prairie Schooner.

Personal life and legacy

Bloom married statistician Hans Konrad Ury in 1955. She died from cancer in 1995, at the age of 62, at her home in Oakland, California.[20] The Department of East Asian Languages at UCD offers a Marian Ury Japan Travel Award in her memory.[21] In 2003, the journal Japanese Language and Literature dedicated a special issue to Ury.[22] Her papers are in the collection of UC Davis Library.[23]

Notes and References

  1. News: November 23, 1970 . Louis S. Bloom . The Berkeley Gazette . 17 . Newspapers.com.
  2. News: August 6, 1955 . Couple Recite Nuptial Vows at Home Ceremony . The Berkeley Gazette . 9 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: September 30, 1975 . Comparative Literature; More Student-Teacher Contact Sought . California Aggie . B-7 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  4. News: February 16, 1978 . New Spring Classes; Comp Lit Offers New Twist . California Aggie . 3 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  5. News: Fox . Lori . November 12, 1984 . Japan's Greatest Novelist Shapes Culture . California Aggie . 7 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  6. Web site: 1984 . NEH Award RL-20585-84, Marian B. Ury . 2024-11-05 . National Endowment for the Humanities.
  7. News: September 9, 1965 . First Fall Concert For Music Forum Set Friday Evening . Martinez News-Gazette . 5 . Newspapers.com.
  8. News: February 9, 1968 . De Silva Quartet to be Presented by Music Forum . Martinez News-Gazette . 4 . Newspapers.com.
  9. News: Sullivan . Kathleen . May 22, 1995 . Memorial Service Set for UC Professor Ury . SFGate.
  10. Ury . Marian . 1972 . Recluses and Eccentric Monks: Tales from the Hosshinshū by Kamo no Chōmei . Monumenta Nipponica . 27 . 2 . 149–173 . 10.2307/2383717 . 0027-0741.
  11. Ury . Marian . 1973 . Victims . Prairie Schooner . 47 . 2 . 153–166 . 0032-6682.
  12. Ury . Marian . Summer 1976 . The Imaginary Kingdom and the Translator's Art: Notes on Re-Reading Waley's Genji . Journal of Japanese Studies . 2 . 2 . 267–294 . 10.2307/132055 . 0095-6848.
  13. Book: Tales of times now past: sixty-two stories from a medieval Japanese collection . 1993 . Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan . 978-0-939512-61-4 . Ury . Marian . Michigan classics in Japanese studies . Ann Arbor.
  14. Ury . Marian . 1988 . A Heian Note on the Supernatural . The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese . 22 . 2 . 189–194 . 10.2307/488941 . 0885-9884.
  15. Borgen . Robert . Ury . Marian . 1990 . Readable Japanese Mythology: Selections from Nihon shoki and Kojiki . The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese . 24 . 1 . 61–97 . 10.2307/489230 . 0885-9884.
  16. Book: Poems of the five mountains: an introduction to the literature of the Zen monasteries . 1992 . Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan . 978-0-939512-53-9 . Ury . Marian . 2. Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies . Ann Arbor.
  17. Ury . Marian . 1993 . The Ōe Conversations . Monumenta Nipponica . 48 . 3 . 359–380 . 10.2307/2385131 . 0027-0741.
  18. Ury . Marian . Borgen . Robert . 1996 . Ōe no Masafusa and the Practice of Heian Autobiography . Monumenta Nipponica . 51 . 2 . 143–151 . 10.2307/2385084 . 0027-0741.
  19. Ury . Marian . 2002 . Nuns and Other Female Devotees in Genkō shakusho (1322), Japan's First History of Buddhism . Engendering faith . English . 189.
  20. News: May 25, 1995 . Obituary: Marian Ury . SFGate.
  21. Web site: Marian Ury Japan Travel Award . 2024-11-05 . East Asian Languages & Cultures, UC Davis.
  22. October 2003 . In Memory of Marian Ury . Japanese Language and Literature . 37 . 2 . JSTOR.
  23. Web site: Ury, Marian. Papers. – UC Davis Library . 2024-11-06 . en-US.

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