Position:
Retired University Lecturer, Japanese
Faculty / College Address:
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies / The Queen's College
Email:
phillip.harries@ames.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Classical Japanese literature, especially early and medieval poetry
- Comparative literature
- Stylistics
- Poetics
- Translation studies
Courses Taught:
- Japanese to English translation
- Classical Japanese literary texts
- Introduction to Classical Japanese
- Modern Japanese literary texts
- History of Japanese literature
- Aspects of Introduction fo Premodern Japanese History and Culture
- Postgraduate supervision for M.St., M.Litt., D.Phil.
Recent Publications:
- The poetic memoires of Lady Daibu, Stanford University Press
- "Arthur Waley", in H. Cortazzi and G. Daniels (eds.), Britain and Japan 1859-1991, Routledge 1991
- "A sense of tragedy: attitudes in Europe and Japan", in Boscaro, Gatti, and Raveri (eds.), Rethinking Japan, Japan Library Ltd. 1991
- "The forms of Japanese fiction", in J.K. Gillespie (ed.), Japan: a literary overview = Review of National Literatures 18 (1993)
- "Wakabungaku to konpyuta: Yoshitadashu o megutte", in Shimpojiumu konpyuta kokubungaku koenshu, National Institute of Japanese Lite
