テーマと教訓 : 『フラムリー牧師館』におけるトロロプの新たな手法

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When George Smith, publisher of the Cornhill Magazine, asked Trollope to provide a serial novel for the periodical, he had never composed such a novel. Nevertheless the first number was successfully published only about two months later, and the novel, Framley Parsonage, maintained its great popularity to the end. In writing the serial novel, Trollope strived to make each number "a whole". It was, however, necessary to adopt a technique to secure the unity, especially when many different characters appeared in one number. Trollope didn't like to use the suspenseful ending, one of the possible choices, because he thought it would destroy the trust between the novelist and his readers. It was the introduction of one particular theme into each number that he, instead, employed in Framley Parsonage. As a result, it allowed him to teach readers the lessons more frequently, which he considered, at that time, as one of the very important roles of a novelist.
英米文化学会の論文
2008-03-31