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Studies in Honour of Professor Hisaaki Yamanouchi
Published on 17. April 1997
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-0-85991-503-8 (ISBN)
Description
Essays on aspects of English literature from Chaucer to Henry James, with special focus on the Romantics.
The essays in this volume are published in honour of the distinguished Japanese scholar of English literature, Professor Hisaaki Yamanouchi. The book begins with a section on English Romanticism, with pieces on Blake, Wordsworth,Coleridge, Shelley and Keats. There follow studies of aspects of literature from Chaucer to Henry James, and lighter pieces on biographical errors, and on cats and nonsense literature. The volume concludes with a short personal section, including a memoir by Professor Yamanouchi's close friend, the Nobel Prize winner, Kenzaburo Oe.
Professor GEORGE HUGHES teaches in the Department of Literature, Faculty of Letters, Tokyo University.
Contributors: ALAN BEWELL, J.R. de J. JACKSON, JOHN BEER, KENKICHI KAMIJIMA, NAHOKO MIYAMOTO, JONATHAN WORDSWORTH, DEREK BREWER, IAN JACK, GRAHAM LAW, ANN THWAITE, YASUNARI TAKAHASHI, CLAIR HUGHES, MICHAEL MILLGATE, GEORGE HUGHES, EARL MINER, HIROSHI IZUBUCHI, JOHN CAREY, ANTHONY THWAITE, KENZABURO OE, CARMEN BLACKER
The essays in this volume are published in honour of the distinguished Japanese scholar of English literature, Professor Hisaaki Yamanouchi. The book begins with a section on English Romanticism, with pieces on Blake, Wordsworth,Coleridge, Shelley and Keats. There follow studies of aspects of literature from Chaucer to Henry James, and lighter pieces on biographical errors, and on cats and nonsense literature. The volume concludes with a short personal section, including a memoir by Professor Yamanouchi's close friend, the Nobel Prize winner, Kenzaburo Oe.
Professor GEORGE HUGHES teaches in the Department of Literature, Faculty of Letters, Tokyo University.
Contributors: ALAN BEWELL, J.R. de J. JACKSON, JOHN BEER, KENKICHI KAMIJIMA, NAHOKO MIYAMOTO, JONATHAN WORDSWORTH, DEREK BREWER, IAN JACK, GRAHAM LAW, ANN THWAITE, YASUNARI TAKAHASHI, CLAIR HUGHES, MICHAEL MILLGATE, GEORGE HUGHES, EARL MINER, HIROSHI IZUBUCHI, JOHN CAREY, ANTHONY THWAITE, KENZABURO OE, CARMEN BLACKER
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
2 s/w Abbildungen
2 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85991-503-8 (9780859915038)
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Content
`Chaucer's `Knight's Tale' and the Problem of Cultural Translatability'. - Derek S Brewer
`The Nature of Satire'. - Ian Jack
`Voices `breathed from the hollow pit': The Book of Thel and Blake's Inquiry into the Origin of the Idea of Death'. - Alan Bewell
`The Impersonality of `Tintern Abbey''. - J.R. De J. Jackson
`Hisaaki in Cambridge'. - John Beer
`A Conclusion Disconcluded: The Paradox of Reading `The Triumph of Life''. - Kenkichi Kamijima
``Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands': Alastor and a New Eastern Geography'. - Nahoko Miyamoto
`Industrial Designs: Form and Function in the `Condition-of- England' Novel'. - Graham Law
`A Letter About Error'. - Ann Thwaite
`A Quartet with Nonsense Cats'. - Yasunari Takahashi
`Reflections of Dress in Henry James's `The Wings of the Dove''. - Clair Hughes
`Obscure Rivalry: Thomas Hardy and Henry James in Early Career'. - Michael Millgate
`The Hysteria of the Modern Artist: J.M. Synge and `Etude Morbide''. - George Hughes
`T.S. Eliot, `Hamlet' and Excess'. - Earl Miner
`A Poetics of the 1940s: The Case of David Gascoyne'. - Hiroshi Izubuchi
`H.G. Wells, T.S. Eliot and William Golding: Some Connections'. - John Carey
`Keats' Mysterious Tale'. - Jonathan Wordsworth
`Remembering 1955 and 1985 in 1995'. - Anthony Thwaite
`To Celebrate the Retirement'. - Oe Kenzaburo
`Hisaaki in Cambridge'. - Carmen Blacker
`The Nature of Satire'. - Ian Jack
`Voices `breathed from the hollow pit': The Book of Thel and Blake's Inquiry into the Origin of the Idea of Death'. - Alan Bewell
`The Impersonality of `Tintern Abbey''. - J.R. De J. Jackson
`Hisaaki in Cambridge'. - John Beer
`A Conclusion Disconcluded: The Paradox of Reading `The Triumph of Life''. - Kenkichi Kamijima
``Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands': Alastor and a New Eastern Geography'. - Nahoko Miyamoto
`Industrial Designs: Form and Function in the `Condition-of- England' Novel'. - Graham Law
`A Letter About Error'. - Ann Thwaite
`A Quartet with Nonsense Cats'. - Yasunari Takahashi
`Reflections of Dress in Henry James's `The Wings of the Dove''. - Clair Hughes
`Obscure Rivalry: Thomas Hardy and Henry James in Early Career'. - Michael Millgate
`The Hysteria of the Modern Artist: J.M. Synge and `Etude Morbide''. - George Hughes
`T.S. Eliot, `Hamlet' and Excess'. - Earl Miner
`A Poetics of the 1940s: The Case of David Gascoyne'. - Hiroshi Izubuchi
`H.G. Wells, T.S. Eliot and William Golding: Some Connections'. - John Carey
`Keats' Mysterious Tale'. - Jonathan Wordsworth
`Remembering 1955 and 1985 in 1995'. - Anthony Thwaite
`To Celebrate the Retirement'. - Oe Kenzaburo
`Hisaaki in Cambridge'. - Carmen Blacker