Inter-generic Research on Dramatic City Romance and the Early Works of Dickens

戏剧都市言情与狄更斯早期作品的跨类研究

基本信息

批准号：
17520144
负责人：
HARA Eiichi
金额：
$ 1.92万
依托单位：
Tohoku University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
2005
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2005 至 2006
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-17520144/
关键词：
city romance Dickens novel drama Forest 都市喜劇 Ben Jonson Aphra Behn ジャンル小説の勃興

项目摘要

Critical studies on the relationship between Charles Dickens and the drama of the seventeenth-century, Renaissance and Restoration drama, has not been adequately conducted. This research has its origin in the discovery of affinities between Dickens's early works and English drama of seventeenth-and eighteenth-centuries. An attempt has been made to elucidate the origins of theatricality evident in Dickens by making extensive research on primary sources of drama of the seventeenth century, which, it is expected, will lead to the resolution of problems involving cultural and mechanical dynamism which triggered the transfer of dominant literary genre from drama to novel in the early decades of the eighteenth-century. As a result, it has been perceived that a close relationship exists between the growth of the city, an epitome of modern capitalist civilization and transformations of literary genres. An urbanized form of romance was engendered by the affiliation of medieval romance into drama intended for the city audience consisting mainly of apprentices; the urban mercantile class was rapidly expanding with the development of the city. The forest as the locus of romance symbolizes natural desires and instinctive drives of man while the city stands for civilization. Human beings, by changing their dwelling places from the forest to the city, went on to building modern civilization, but at the same time they had inevitably to internalize a fundamental contradiction. The novel as the new, modern form of literature was founded on this basic conflict between the Forest and the City. This study has succeeded in elucidating the dynamism behind the transition from the romance to the novel, stepping beyond the original research on the relationship between Dickens and drama. A perspective is opened for radically rewriting the English literary history from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.

对查尔斯·狄更斯与十七世纪戏剧、文艺复兴和复辟戏剧之间的关系的批判性研究还没有进行充分的研究。这项研究起源于狄更斯早期作品与十七、十八世纪英国戏剧之间的相似性的发现。我们试图通过对十七世纪戏剧的主要来源进行广泛的研究来阐明狄更斯戏剧性的起源，预计这将导致涉及引发转移的文化和机械动力问题的解决。十八世纪初期从戏剧到小说的主导文学流派。由此，人们认识到，作为现代资本主义文明缩影的城市的发展与文学体裁的转变之间存在着密切的关系。中世纪的浪漫故事与戏剧的结合产生了一种城市化的浪漫形式，该戏剧的受众主要是学徒组成的城市观众。随着城市的发展，城市商业阶层迅速壮大。森林作为浪漫之地，象征着人类的自然欲望和本能驱动力，而城市则代表着文明。人类通过居住地从森林走向城市，不断建设现代文明，但同时也不可避免地内化了一个根本矛盾。小说作为一种新的现代文学形式，是建立在森林与城市之间的基本冲突之上的。这项研究成功地阐明了从浪漫到小说的转变背后的动力，超越了狄更斯与戏剧关系的原始研究。为彻底改写十七世纪至十九世纪的英国文学史开辟了一个视角。