Teaching of English and American Literature in Japan: A Brief Survey

• 영문명: Teaching of English and American Literature in Japan: A Brief Survey
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: Takaki Hiraishi
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제7집 1호, 25~37쪽, 전체 13쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2003.06.01

영문 초록

Many scenes of heated discussion have recently been witnessed in Japan on the question of education of English literature in colleges and universities. A growing number of Japanese teachers of English literature are now trying to help students understand cultures of the English-speaking world, some of them particularly interested in what is called "cultural studies"; meanwhile, teachers supporting the traditional view, not necessarily elderly teachers, maintain that teaching of literature is a matter of education, not a matter of literature, and cultural studies is a branch of sociology, not of literature. The culture-oriented method is in fashion now because it keeps pace not only with recent trends of literary criticism but with various social changes in the post-War Japan. but nobody is able to see clearly if it solves the difficult question of education of literature once and for all, as is shown by a questionnaire made by a literary journal in 2002.