Hemmi, Yoko

写真a

Affiliation

Faculty of Letters (Mita)

Position

Professor Emeritus
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Career 【 Display / hide 】

  • 1992.04
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    1995.03

    北里大学 ,専任講師

  • 1997.04
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    2000.03

    大学助手(文学部)

  • 1999.10
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    2001.07

    大学文学部学習指導副主任

  • 2004.04
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    2006.03

    学生総合センター学生部門委員（日吉）

  • 2011.04
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    Present

    Keio University, Faculty of Letters, Professor

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Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

  • 1982.03

    Keio University, Faculty of Literature

    University, Graduated

  • 1984.03

    Keio University, Graduate School, Division of Letters

    Graduate School, Completed, Master's course

  • 1990.03

    University of California, Los Angeles, Folklore and Mythology Program, Folklore and Mythology

    United States, Graduate School, Completed, Master's course

  • 1992.03

    Keio University, Graduate School, Division of Letters

    Graduate School, Withdrawal after completion of doctoral course requirements, Doctoral course

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Books 【 Display / hide 】

  • アーサー王物語研究　源流から現代まで

    HEMMI YOKO, 中央大学出版部, 2016.03

    Scope: pp. 285-323

  • 『中世主義を超えて イギリス中世の発明と受容』

    HEMMI YOKO, 慶應義塾大学出版会, 2009.03

    Scope: 1ー26

  • 『中世イギリス文学入門—研究と文献案内』

    HEMMI YOKO, 雄松堂出版, 2008.12

    Scope: 267–79, 293–94, 296, 298–30, 304–05, 307–08

  • 『ユートピアの文学世界』

    HEMMI YOKO, 慶應義塾大学出版会, 2008.06

    Scope: 159 – 180

  • 比較神話学の鳥瞰図

    HEMMI YOKO, 大和書房, 2005.12

    Scope: 156－174

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    中世アイルランド文学に登場する竪琴弾きが奏でる、聴き手を心身ともに呪縛する「三つの旋律」、中でも「眠りの旋律」が扱われている作品を分析し、その呪詛性を探り、死の危険を孕む眠りの意味するところを考察する。

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Papers 【 Display / hide 】

  • ‘Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and His Concept of Native Language: Sindarin and British-Welsh’

    HEMMI YOKO

    Tolkien Studies (West Virginia University Press)  7   147~174 2010.08

    Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Accepted,  ISSN  1547-3155

  • Tolkienesque Transformations: Post-Celticism and Possessiveness in "The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun"

    HEMMI YOKO

    The Return of the Ring: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012, vol.2 (Luna Press)     3 - 14 2016

    Research paper (international conference proceedings), Single Work

  • The Marvels of the Forest of Brocéliande in a Colonial Context: Chrétien de Troyes and Wace

    HEMMI YOKO

    Voix des Mythes, Science des Civilisations (Peter Lang)     179 - 193 2012

    Single Work

  • 「ケルト」神話とファンタジー

    HEMMI YOKO

    言語 (大修館書店)  35 ( 6 ) 29-37 2006.06

    Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work,  ISSN  0287-1696

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    「ケルト神話」という概念が、「ケルト」の神話化の経緯と不可分であることを検証し、「ケルト」のオーラとファンタジーの関係を考察する。

  • よくわかる『指輪物語』－「伝承」と「神話」のはざま

    HEMMI YOKO

    三色旗 (慶應義塾大学通信教育部)   ( 693 ) 14－25 2005.12

    Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work

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    J.R.R.トールキンの『指輪物語」の背景に広がる神話伝承の重層性への理解が、作品主題への理解に繋がることを具体的に解説した。

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Presentations 【 Display / hide 】

  • A Looming Luminary: Kenneth Jackson’s invisible presence in Tolkien’s ‘English and Welsh’ lecture

    HEMMI YOKO

    48th International Congress on Medieval Studies (West Michigan University) , 

    2013.05
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    Oral presentation (general), International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo

  • Tolkienesque Transformations: Post-Celticism and Possessiveness in ‘The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun’

    HEMMI YOKO

    The Return of the Ring (Tolkien Society Conference) (Loughborough University, UK) , 

    2012.08
    , 

    Oral presentation (general), Tolkien Society

  • Dunlendish and Sindarin: Tolkien's Diptych of British-Welsh

    HEMMI YOKO

    International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, USA) , 

    2011.05
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    Oral presentation (general), The Medieval Institute Western Michigan University

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    Tolkien produced a unique theory of British-Welsh as representing the “native language” or the “native linguistic potential” of many of the English, including himself, who lived in Britain. Tolkien’s predilection for British-Welsh is therefore connected, if indirectly, to the Romantic Nationalism which he revealed in a famous letter addressed to Milton Waldman. In the letter, Tolkien confided his ambition to create “a body of more or less connected legend” which he could dedicate to “England: to my country.” Tolkien, who valued British-Welsh greatly on account of its historicity and “linguistic aesthetic,” not only modeled one of his invented languages, Sindarin, on British-Welsh so as to reflect his “linguistic aesthetic,” but also presented it as ancient, indigenous, and predominant, that is, as historically analogous to the British language before the arrival of English.　
    Conversely, Tolkien employed words of British-Welsh origin to represent traces of Dunlendish, which survived in the language of the Stoors and the Bree-men. Tolkien thus invited comparison between Dunlendish and the historical Celtic language in Britain, elements of which survived in England in a similar manner. However, whereas Sindarin is depicted as a euphonic and noble language by Tolkien, he has Dunlendish, one of the languages of the wild men, sounding like “the scream of birds and the bellowing of beasts” to the ears of Éomer – possibly projecting onto his Secondary World the colonial attitude of the politically dominant English people towards the ancient but minor British language. Tolkien himself is known to have been opposed to the “misuse of British,” which deprived “the Welsh of their claim to be the chief inheritors of the title British,” while simultaneously rejecting romantic Celticism. This paper examines Tolkien’s intriguing use of British-Welsh for both Dunlendish and Sindarin, which seems to form a diptych mirroring his linguistic messages concerning British-Welsh.

  • Tolkien in International Higher Education <Japan>

    HEMMI YOKO

    The Return of the Ring (Tolkien Society Conference) (Loughborough University, UK) , 

    2012.08
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    Symposium, workshop panel (nominated), Tolkien Society

  • Tolkien’s Concept of ‘Native Language’ and the ‘English and Welsh’ Papers at the Bodleian Library

    HEMMI YOKO

    51st International Congress of Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA) , 

    2016.05
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    Oral presentation (general), Medieval Institute College of Arts and Sciences Western Michigan University

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Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

  • 『ホビット』以前のJ. R. R. トールキン：初期学術論考の草稿研究

    2019.04
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    2022.03

    MEXT,JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Principal investigator

  • トールキン作品における「先史」観の未刊草稿原稿による解明

    2015.04
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    2019.03

    MEXT,JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Principal investigator

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Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

  • ENGLISH LITERATURE 4

    2025

  • ENGLISH LITERATURE 3

    2025

  • INTERMEDIATE HIGH ENGLISH 1

    2024

  • INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH 4

    2024

  • INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH 3

    2024

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Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

  • Japan Celticists Society

    　

  • International Arthurian Society

    　

  • The Society for Medieval English Studies

    　

  • 日本英文学会

    　

  • 日本アイルランド協会

    　
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Committee Experiences 【 Display / hide 】

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    幹事, 日本ケルト学会

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    会員, 国際アーサー王学会日本支部

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    委員, 日本中世英語英文学会

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    会員, 日本英文学会

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    会員, 日本アイルランド協会

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