Chaucer Studies in Japan: A Personal View
- Author / Editor
- Takamiya, Toshiyuki.
Chaucer Studies in Japan: A Personal View
- Published
- Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995), pp. 327-35.
- Description
- Summarizes the development of Chaucerian studies in Japan, noting major Japanese scholars of Chaucer, the founding of the Centre for Medieval English Studies at the University of Tokyo, the inception of "Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies, and the formation of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies.
- Japanese scholars have concentrated on "philological or linguistic approaches to Chaucer and the making of concordances."
- Alternative Title
- The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.