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Saburo Oka.
Researches into English Medieval and Modern Literature.

Publisher Tokyo: Kokubunsha, 1995.
ISBN 4772004130.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in Japan.
Size: 155x216x16mm.
Page count: 155pp.
Main language: English, some quotations given without translation.
Overall condition good to very good: this copy has some mild shelf wear; text appears to be free of marking; a presentation inscription by the author on the front endpaper.

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Weight without packaging: 398g.

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Collects several of Oka's essays originally published between 1952 and 1995.

Contents:
Narrative pattern of ME romances — King Horn & Sir Orfeo;
Structural interpretation of the Knight’s Tale — Chaucerian triangle in the global perspective;
Chaucer’s transformation of 'The Legend of Philomela' in Legend of Good Women;
Characterizations by Ovid, Gower & Chaucer of the Tereus-Procne-Philomela story;
Another Chinese parallel to the 'Tale' of Chaucer’s Pardoner;
Protesilaus & Laodamia from Homer to Wordsworth — interpretation of Wordsworth's Laodamia;
Reverie & imagination in Rousseau & Wordsworth;
Keats's speculations — interpretation of 'O Sorrow';
An Arthurian novella as source of Tennyson's Lady of Shalott.

Illustrations: 2 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: 2
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 10pp (published writings of Saburo Oka)
Index: yes

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