Lafcadio Hearn's Lectures on Shakespeare

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  • 小泉八雲のシェイクスピア講義
  • 小泉八雲のシェイクスピア講義--掌中メモから創作的口述へ
  • コイズミ ヤクモ ノ シェイクスピア コウギ ショウチュウ メモ カラ ソウサ
  • Creative Oral Presentation from Little Notebook
  • 掌中メモから創作的口述へ

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This article first examined the relationship among Hearn's lectures on Shakespeare, his little notebook in Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum in Matsue, and his books in Toyama University Library, and secondly reported on Hearn's effetive approach to the teaching English literature at Tokyo University.<BR>Hearn possessed in his library as many as 2, 453 volumes of books, but what he actually used in his lectures were surprisingly few-so few as a one-volume “Globe edition” and Edward Dowden's Shakespeare.<BR>His lectures were orally presented, and written down verbatim by his students, leaving deep appreciative impressions. His lectures were in all points “personal” and well adapted not only to his students' level of the English language and culture, but also to their special Japanese way of thinking and feeling.<BR>Hearn's advice to his students that they should study English literature in order to develop their own Japanese literature was enthusiastically followed up by his elite disciple-students in their later works.

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