English Criticism in Japan

Essays by Younger Japanese Scholars on English and American Literature

Earl Miner

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780691619668, 9780691646534
• eBook ISBN: 9781400870356
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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