English criticism in Japan : essays by younger Japanese scholars on English and American literature / compiled and edited, with an introduction by Earl Miner ; edited by Elizabeth W. Kodama.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miner, Earl Roy, Author.

Contributor:

Miner, Earl, 1927-2004, compiler, editor, author of introduction.

Kodama, Elizabeth W., editor.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Criticism--Japan.

Criticism.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Distribution:

[Princeton, N.J.] : Princeton University Press

Place of Publication:

[Tokyo, Japan?] : University of Tokyo Press, 1972.

Summary:

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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Problems in Chaucer's Description of Women / Ando, Shinsuke

Time and Colin Clout, the Shepherd / Fujii, Haruhiko

The Concept of the Royal in Shakespeare / Fujita, Minoru

Time and Truth in King Lear / Iwasaki, Soji

Exit the Fool / Nojima, Hidekatsu

The Decadence of John Ford's Tragedies / Sasayama, Takashi

"Celestial Light": The Irradiating Ideas of Paradise Lost / Doke, Hiroichiro

George Etherege and the Destiny of Restoration Comedy / Kishi, Tetsuo

Who is Lucy?- On the Structure of Wordsworthian Imagination / Takahashi, Yasunari

The Involuntary Memory as Discovered by Coleridge / Yura, Kimiyoshi

The Implications of Dejection: An Ode / Yamanouchi, Hisaaki

The Education of George Gissing / Koike, Shigeru

The Dissociation of Ideas in Whitman's Democratic Vistas / Sakamoto, Masayuki

Isabel's Freedom: On Henry James's Portrait of a Lady / Aoki, Tsugio

Τ. S. Eliot on Hamlet and His Problems / Yamada, Shoichi

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed November 14, 2025)

ISBN:

9780691619668

0691619662

9780691646534

0691646538

9781400870356

1400870356

OCLC:

586833444