日本におけるスウィフト研究

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Soseki NATSUME, Bungaku Hyoron (Literary Studies), Tokyo, 1909. A study of the early eighteenth century literature. In Chap. 4 the author discusses Swift and his misanthropy. (Other chaps, are on Addison, Steele, Pope, and Defoe and the general background of the age.) NATSUME, one of the most distinguished novelists in modern Japan, seeks to throw light on Swift's misanthropy by considering some biographical facts. Just like Swift, Natsume is a satirist and his discussion shows that he and Swift had sympathies in common. Ki-ichi HIRATA, Jonathan Swift, Tokyo, 1937. An introductory book. Surveys Swift's life and work. Discussion sounds rather mediocre. Yoshio NAKANO, "Swift and Gulliver's Travels", Bungei (Literary Magazine), 1942. Yoshio NAKANO, "Literature of saeva indignatio", Ningen (Literary Magazine), 1946. On Swift's "indignation". The author concludes that Swift seems to have had a high regard for the individual person's goodwill notwithstanding his bitter hatred to the general mankind. (We must add that Nakano published several essays in which he tried to set up his theory of satire. His book on satire in general is still expected. See, for example, his "Preface to Satire", Bungei, 1946.) Yoshizo MIYAZAKI, "Swift's Attitude", Eigo Seinen (Journal of English Studies), extra issue published in 1950. On Swift's attitude in politics. Rintaro FUKUHARA, Eibungaku no Tokushitsu (Characteristic of English Literature), Tokyo, 1954. The author describes in the book the short history of the English satire and tells how to read Gulliver's Travels. He also seeks for the Japanese tales written in the form of Gulliver's Travels. Three Japanese books published in 1763, 1774, and 1809 respectively are mentioned. Yoshizo MIYAZAKI, "Political thought in Gulliver's Travels", Eibungaku Kenkyu (Studies in English Literature), vol. 32 (1955), no. 1. The author finds many passages in Gulliver's Travels which indicate that for Swift the ideal form of government is the mixed state. It is concluded that Swift remained negatively oriented to the social change of his time. Isamu MURAOKA, "On Gulliver's Travels", Eigo Seinen, vol. 102 (1956) no.5. An interesting study of the rhetorical construction of Gulliver's Travels. Shows, first, that Swift wrote the book following the tradition of "the chain of being", and second that he was influenced by the scientific movement of the age especially when he symbolized moral nature through physical size. Provocative article. Kozo FUKAMACHI, "Swift's Women", Eibungaku Kenkyu, vol. 33 (1957), no.2. On some peculiarities of Swift's personality. Makoto IWATA, "Preface to Swift", Waseda Hogaku Kaishi (Journal of the Department of Law, Waseda Univ.), nos. 8-12 (1957-1962). Most comprehensive study of Swift ever written by Japanese. The article shows a wide reading of Swift's works and modern studies of Swift in England and America. A very valuable introduction of Swift. Daishi HORI, On Swift and Other Essays, Tokyo, 1959. An attempt to analyze the complex manifestations and implications of Swift's thought. The author concludes that Swift's gloom is to be interpreted as an idiosyncrasy of a single writer, and does not agree with R. Quintana who says "Swift's genius was not original but representative." Yoshizo MIYAZAKI, "Swift and Defoe", Eigo Seinen, vol. 105 (1959), no.6. Compares An Argument against Abolishing Christianity with The Shortest Way with the Dissenters. Kazuhiko YONEDA, "Swift", Eibei Bungakushi Koza (Vol. 5 of Kenkyusha's History of English Literature), Tokyo, 1961. A useful account of Swift's life and work. Makoto IWATA, "The Meaning of the Houyhnhnms", Eibungaku (Journal of English Studies of Waseda University), no. 19 (1961). Reply to K. Williams' Jonathan Swift and the Age of Compromise, in which she argues that (1) "the Houyhnhnms are the dream of the Deist" (p. 187) and (2) the Deist is an enemy to Swift, so (3) the Houyhnhnms are not Swift's ideal. Our author contends that the Houyhnhnms differ in several important aspects from the Deist. For instance Houyhnhnms' reason is different from what Shaftesbury or Bolingbroke called reason. Clear and convincing, and successful in throwing serious doubt on Williams' challenging book. Shoichi SAEKI, "To Reread Gulliver's Travels", Eigo Seinen, vol. 111 (1965), no.8. TRANSLATIONS : Gulliver's Travels, tr. by Yoshio NAKANO, Kyoto, 1940. Directions to Servants and A Modest Proposal, tr. by Kozo FUKAMACHI, Tokyo, 1950. A Tale of a Tub, tr. by Kozo FUKAMACHI, Tokyo, 1953.
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1967-03-30

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