Takenaka, Koji
Faculty of Letters French Literature Assistant Professor
Research Overview
I specialize in French Renaissance literature, primarily Michel de Montaigne and Étienne de La Boétie. In my research, I study how writers at the time attempted to express their literary prowess and individuality through imitation from the perspective of rhetoric, one of the predominant frameworks of thought in the 16th century. I am also interested in anachronistic reading as a methodological issue.
Specialty
16th-Century French Literature