Arthurian and Other Studies

by Noguchi, Shunichi; Mukai, Tsuyoshi; Suzuki, Takashi

• ISBN13: 9780859913805
• ISBN10: 0859913805
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-04-01
• Publisher: Ds Brewer

Summary

These essays for Shunichi Noguchi, by scholars from Britain, the USA and Japan, reflect his approach to English studies and his wide range of interests from Beowulf to Ulysses. The principal focus, however, is on medieval and renaissance studies: nine of the essays are on Arthurian themes, to which Professor Noguchi has devoted his academic life. There are also essays on Beowulf, Chaucer, the York miracle plays, and Shakespeare, as well as textual studies of Gower, Wulfstan, Wycliffe and Caxton.Contributors: SHUICHI AITA, SHINSUKE ANDO, DEREK BREWER, ANTONY DICKINSON, P.J.C. FIELD, KAZUO FUKUDA, EIICHI HAYAKAWA, TADAHIRO IKEGAMI, MIKIKO ISHII, SOUJI IWASAKI, GREGORY K. JEMBER, TOMOMI KATO, EDWARD DONALD KENNEDY,TADAO KUBOUCHI, JOHN LAWLOR, KIYOKAZU MIZOBATA, GEORGE MOOR, TSUYOSHI MUKAI, YUJI NAKAO, FUMIKO OKA, YUZUYO OKUMURA, ISAMU SAITO, SHIRO SHIBA, JAN SIMKO, JUN SUDO, TAKASHI SUZUKI, TOSHIYUKI TAKAMIYA, RAYMOND P. TRIPP.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Editors' Preface
Sonnet to Shunichi Noguchi on his sixtieth birthday
Our Friend Shunichi Noguchi
Publications of Shunichi Noguchi
Tabula Gratulatoria
Power as a Measure of Humanism in Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	p. 1
Jesus, A Trickster in the York Passion Plays	p. 15
'Greyn' of Martyrdom in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale	p. 31
A Note on 'Nature' in Hamlet	p. 39
'Allegory of Happiness' in The Merchant of Venice	p. 45
Hamlet and 'Modesty'	p. 57
Cathleens in Yeats and Joyce: Love's Bitter Mystery	p. 65
The Narrator's Function in The Great Gatsby	p. 69
The Significance of Latin Teaching in British Education	p. 77
Hauberk and Helm in Malory's Le Morte Darthur	p. 87
Hunting, Hawking, and Textual Criticism in Malory's Morte Darthur	p. 95
Malory's "Noble Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake", the Vulgate Lancelot, and the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal	p. 107
Chaucer and Malory: Signs of the Times	p. 131
Editor/Compositor at Work: the Case of Caxton's Malory	p. 143
Modernity of the Middle English Stanzaic Romance Le Morte Arthur	p. 153
The Structure and Tone of the Stanzaic Morte Arthur	p. 169
De Worde's Displacement of Malory's Secularization	p. 179
Some Scribal Differences in Malory	p. 189
On the Relationship Between the Winchester Malory and Caxton's Malory	p. 201
Texts of 'Be Cynestole' in Wulfstan's Institutes of Polity	p. 211
Chaucer's Use of Words of Old Norse Origin	p. 219
'Myn deere herte' in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde	p. 231
Negation in the Wycliffite Sermons	p. 241
Spelling Variations in Cambridge, St John's College MS. B 12 (34)	p. 247
Caxton's Revisions: the Game of Chess, the Mirror of the World, and Reynard the Fox	p. 257
Discourse Properties of Initial and Final When-Clauses in English Written Narratives	p. 263
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