文学における仮説と真実と : O. Wildeの'The Portrait of Mr. W. H.'をめぐって

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The name of Oscar Wilde has been widely known as an incarnation of decadence or aestheticism in English fin-de-siecle literature. Such a view as this has been quite popular especially here in Japan since Meiji-Taisho eras simply because of a strong impression caused by his eccentric speech and behaviour in actual life, not by his literary works themselves. And yet, another aspect of his, that is, the merit as an aesthetic critic who tried to evolve criticism out of the impressionistic one in the nineteenth century into a kind of creative and intellectual form of art in the modern age, has been rather neglected. In connection with the above mentioned aspect, now in this paper we are going to make a succinct enquiry into O. Wilde's 'The Portrait of Mr. W. H.', a most unique piece of work concerning the riddle of Shakespeare's Sonnets among modern English literature. And in doing so we should like to try to make it clear that the merit of O. Wilde as a critic was and is of greater consequence to the modernization of not merely English literary criticism but art and literature in general as well.
東京家政学院大学の論文