W.P.キンセラの研究－「シューレス・ジョー」における夢と現実－

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“Baseball novels”occupy not a little important place in the world of modernAmerican literature. And W. P. Kinsella, a Canadian novelist, is one of the most wellknownwriters of that genre. His most famous masterpiece is Shoeless Joe which isthe story of Joseph Jefferson Jackson, a very legendary but tragic baseball player ofChicago White Sox.In this novel Kinsella tries to describe his very nostalgic dream through the smallbaseball stadium which Ray Kinsella（the author’s alter ego）has built in his corn fieldwhere the phantoms of Shoeless Joe, his colleagues and Moonlight Graham and Ray’sfather, etc., play baseball games. This paper is to make it clear that W. P. Kinsellahas looked for the classical heroism and idealism, recollection of the brilliant andsentimental past, mutual understanding and friendship among people through theanalysis of the plot of Shoeless Joe and the examination of the theme of it.
都留文科大学の論文
1999-03-30