Takahashi, Nobuya
Faculty of Letters English and American Literature Professor
Research Overview
My research focuses on the relationship between literature and music. I am particularly interested in how English literature has influenced/has been influenced by music, for instance the image of sound and music in the Romantic poetry, the operatic treatment of Shakespeare’s plays, and the critical activity of G. B. Shaw. This interest extends to translating into Japanese of the publications on various aspects of music and culture, such as Shaw’s commentary on Wagner’s opera The Ring of the Nibelung, the study of Nazi exploitation of the works and the image of Mozart, and the biographies of the conductor Bruno Walter and the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Specialty
Modern English Literature