著者

北村 美樹 中京大学国際英語学部英米文化学科4年

雑誌

中京英文学 = Chukyo English literature (ISSN:02852039)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.26, pp.1-23, 2006-03-17

著者

井上 果苗

雑誌

中京英文学 = Chukyo English literature (ISSN:02852039)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.28, pp.49-70, 2008-01-01

著者

得 良匡

雑誌

中京英文学 = Chukyo English literature (ISSN:02852039)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1, pp.37-53, 1981-03-10

著者

柳沢 秀郎 Hideo YANAGISAWA

雑誌

中京英文学 = Chukyo English literature (ISSN:02852039)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, pp.37-50, 1999-03-19

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This essay is, for the most part, the basis of the presentation that I gave at Chukyo University's English Department Autumn Research Seminar in November, 1998. In this paper I discuss the point that English education in Japan is still very much focused on traditional teaching methods and learners of English are still failing to become proficient speakers of English. I begin with a brief historical look at English education in Japan and examine how current societal conditions have influenced the adoption of the current system, which in face value, through initiatives such as the JET Program, place an emphasis on improving the communicative ability of students. However, the results of a survey of 104 Chukyo University students shows that students rate speaking and listening skills as their weakest. In addition, a large proportion of students appear to possess no real purpose for studying English. Based on my own teaching experience and by returning to some of the basic principles of the Communicative Language Approach I suggest some ways to help create more meaningful lessons and encourage students to participate more actively in the learning process. I would like to express my thanks to Professors Sakae and Fukuda for assisting me in the preparation of this paper.

著者

柳沢 秀郎 Hideo YANAGISAWA

雑誌

中京英文学 = Chukyo English literature (ISSN:02852039)

巻号頁・発行日

no.19, pp.37-50, 1999-03-19

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This essay is, for the most part, the basis of the presentation that I gave at Chukyo University's English Department Autumn Research Seminar in November, 1998. In this paper I discuss the point that English education in Japan is still very much focused on traditional teaching methods and learners of English are still failing to become proficient speakers of English. I begin with a brief historical look at English education in Japan and examine how current societal conditions have influenced the adoption of the current system, which in face value, through initiatives such as the JET Program, place an emphasis on improving the communicative ability of students. However, the results of a survey of 104 Chukyo University students shows that students rate speaking and listening skills as their weakest. In addition, a large proportion of students appear to possess no real purpose for studying English. Based on my own teaching experience and by returning to some of the basic principles of the Communicative Language Approach I suggest some ways to help create more meaningful lessons and encourage students to participate more actively in the learning process. I would like to express my thanks to Professors Sakae and Fukuda for assisting me in the preparation of this paper.

著者

山下 雄治

雑誌

中京英文学 = Chukyo English literature (ISSN:02852039)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.26, pp.25-40, 2006-03-17

著者

服部 英二 EIJI HATTORI

雑誌

中京英文学 = Chukyo English literature (ISSN:02852039)

巻号頁・発行日

no.6, pp.1-51, 1986-03-20

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From his early schooldays to the later years of his life, Thackeray seems to have had a strong persistent urge within him to compose rhymed verses. Just as Shakespeare frequently sprinkled his plays with a jewel of a 'Song' here and there, Thackeray no less frequently set his light, agreeable songs within the pages of his novels. To a distinguished prose master such as he then was, occasional verse writing never failed to be a welcome respite from the humdrum daily hackwork, and so he wrote many more amusing ballads and verses even in his most serious moments. Thackeray's poems should therefore be read with much care and insight, for they might possibly reveal some intrinsic clues to his whole mind and art. His self-depreciating 'doggerel verses' might possibly be acknowledged to be the products of an original sophisticated man of genius with a streak of droll bathetic humour and elegant satiric irony. Thackeray is worth something much more than a passing, perfunctory mention of his name merely as one of the makers of Victorian humorous verse. He deserves at least an ungrudging tribute of praise for his little tour de force in light verse-that delightful and unforgettable 'Ballad of Bouillabaisse'.

著者

小田原 謠子 Yoko ODAWARA

雑誌

中京英文学 = Chukyo English literature (ISSN:02852039)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.13, pp.45-71, 1993-03-19

著者

伊藤 健太

雑誌

中京英文学 = Chukyo English literature (ISSN:02852039)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.28, pp.1-48, 2008-01-01

著者

鬼頭 芳樹 Yoshiki KITO

雑誌

中京英文学 = Chukyo English literature (ISSN:02852039)

巻号頁・発行日

no.19, pp.1-22, 1999-03-19

著者

細川 眞 Makoto Hosokawa

雑誌

中京英文学 = Chukyo English literature (ISSN:02852039)

巻号頁・発行日

no.2, pp.49-74, 1982-01-20

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Romeo and Juliet is fundamentally based on the medieval fate tragedy and the Liebestod myth which are very different in the treatment of death because while death comes as a negative force to a hero and a heroine in the former, it is pursued by them positively in the latter. But this drama has a varied form of each tradition. Fortune in this play is not such a capricious and malignant force as is seen in the tradition, but Nemesis identified with divine vengeance who punishes two families and Verona itself for their hate and civil strife, sacrificing their son and daughter. As to the latter, the myth is mainly related to only a private love-passion, not with society as this drama is, and its love-death motif is transfigured into an initiation into Neoplatonic love where love begins with a purge of sensuous passion, then enters intellectual love which is symbolized by seeing Cupid, and ends in voluptas 'through the first death' and 'the second one.' Voluptas (desire) which had been despicable in the Middle Ages was reclassified as a noble passion by Neoplatonists when it combined with beauty, and became the highest form of divine love, which blind Cupid represented. Spiritualism and the cult of beauty in Romeo's first love and the sexuality of Mercutio and the Nurse prepare us for the divine love of Romeo and Juliet where two elements are united. In the balcony scene, divine love is born in the stage of intellectual love. A Neoplatonist, Friar Lawrence helps them to develop it. Romeo's banishment indicates 'the first death' which is a detachment of the soul from the body. In Juliet's case, the feigned death corresponds to it. Though fortune which has its own purpose works against them by interrupting the Friar's plan in the end, it is no matter to them because they have already risen above the world. On the contrary it gives them an opportunity to experience 'the second death' by which they are completely severed from the body. In this second death, they die ecstatically and attains voluptas, divine ecstasy, the death of which is, E, Wind says, 'to be loved by a god, and partake through him of eternal bliss.' It is concluded that in this drama Shakespeare sets the theme of an initiation into Neoplatonic love in the framework of fate tragedy in which fate works as Nemesis.

著者

刈田 元司 Motoshi Karita

雑誌

中京英文学 = Chukyo English literature (ISSN:02852039)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.4, pp.1-23, 1984-03-10

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The concept that America was discoverd by Columbus and that the American is a single race with its own culture must now be corrected. Because before the 'discovery' of the continent in 1492 there were already many inhabitants, and Cortes the conquerer was embarrassed to find many a variety of Indians, each of whom having quite different types of government and society. So the definition of types of civilization on the part of Marx and Morgan was too idealized to be true to realities. New trends of the study of American Indians might be said to start with Peter Farbs' Man's Rise to Civilization (1968). When Europeans with refined civilization began to conquer uncivilized people in the New World, there were scarcely any trait in common, between them, Western intellectuals from the end of the 17th to the middle of the 18th century had antithetical views of the Red Men. On one hand they thought Indians mute and dumb people who had prevented the progress of civilization, but on the other hand they thought them 'nature's noble savages', 'unspoiled child of the land.' How the conquered Red men met the White men? On Thanksgiving Day, 1970, two hundred Indians from twenty-five tribes gathered at Plymouth Rock to commemorate the landing of pilgrims as a national 'Day of Mourning'. A direct descentant of that Wampanoag tribe who had welcomed the pilgrims aboard the Mayflower in curiosity and friendship declared this act of friendship of his forefathers was 'their greatest mistake'. Since then, they were confronted with multitude of tragic mal-treatments. They had to find some solution to assimilate themselves to the White. Two examples will show their efforts of assimilation. They are Pocahontas and Sacajawea, both of whom were married to Europeans. As for their literature, the first trait to be noticed is oratory. No writing systems comparable with Old World systems had been developed in the New World. Indians lacking an effective writing system had to establish oral tradition. In this oral tradition they had enough reasons to respect words. "The Ritual of Condolence" of Iroguois and "the Night Chant" of Navajos are to represent characteristics of Indian poetry and thought.

著者

刈田 元司 MOTOSHI KARITA

雑誌

中京英文学 = Chukyo English literature (ISSN:02852039)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.5, pp.1-28, 1985-01-20

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Indian Princess Pocahontas was a daughter of King Powhatan and her relation with Captain John Smith has been so often discussed and talked of among historians and romancers that she has been regarded not only as the firsht woman in the history of the United States but has become a heroine of many dramas and novels in the nineteenth century. But since the turn of the century, especially during and after the World War I, poets such as William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Vached Lindsay and Hard Crane, looked Pocahontas as the origin of Americans or as The Earth Mother; she was taken not as a historical figure bus as a mythical lady. And after the World War II, the Pulitzer Prize winner poet Louis Simpson portrayed a new princess Pocahontas in his At the End of the Open Road, and the novelish John Barth showed us a quite different princess in his farcical, picaresque and black humored novel The Sot-Weed Factor.

著者

新居 正子 Masako NII

雑誌

中京英文学 = Chukyo English literature (ISSN:02852039)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.13, pp.73-97, 1993-03-19

著者

高鷲 志子 Yukiko TAKAWASHI

雑誌

中京英文学 = Chukyo English literature (ISSN:02852039)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.15, pp.63-77, 1995-03-19