English Criticism in Japan: Essays by Younger Japanese Scholars on English and American Literature

✍ Scribed by Earl Miner

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 346
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 1377
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection of essays has been compiled in the hope of making scholars in the rest of the world more familiar with Japanese studies in English literature. By revealing to Western scholars the insights and criticisms of their Japanese colleagues they should help to expand the arena of intellectual discussion and improve its quality. The essays are the work of younger scholars from several leading Japanese universities. They range widely over English and American literature, stretching in time from Chaucer to T. S. Eliot, and in subject from the concept of "the royal" in Shakespeare to the involuntary memory as discovered by Coleridge. The writers have some uniquely Japanese perspectives, not of the hackneyed "East meets West" type, but insights stemming, the editor suggests, from these writers' experience of their own very rich literary tradition.

Originally published in 1972.

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Problems in Chaucer's Description of Women, Shinsuke Ando
Time and Colin Clout, the Shepherd, Haruhiko Fujii
The Concept of the Royal in Shakespeare, Minoru Fujita
Time and Truth in King Lear, Soji Iwasaki
Exit the Fool, Hidekatsu Nojima
The Decadence of John Ford's Tragedies, Takashi Sasayama
"Celestial Light": The Irradiating Ideas of Paradise Lost, Hiroichiro Doke
George Etherege and the Destiny of Restoration Comedy, Tetsuo Kishi
Who Is Lucy?-On the Structure of Wordsworthian Imagination, Yasunari Takahashi
The Involuntary Memory as Discovered by Coleridge, Kimiyoshi Yura
The Implications of Dejection: An Ode, Hisaaki Yamanouchi
The Education of George Gissing, Shigeru Koike
The Dissociation of Ideas in Whitman's Democratic Vistas, Masayuki Sakamoto
Isabel's Freedom: On Henry James's Portrait of a Lady, Tsugio Aoki
T. S. Eliot on Hamlet and His Problems, Shoichi Yamada
Index