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ʻIdle and Extravagant Stories in Verseʼ: 400 Years of Narrative Poetry from Sir Gawain to Wordsworth
https://doi.org/10.34577/00000086
https://doi.org/10.34577/00000086c5c5149e-0919-4017-8a91-9e8408677403
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ʻIdle and Extravagant Stories in Verseʼ (837.0 kB)
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| Item type | 紀要論文 / Departmental Bulletin Paper(1) | |||||
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| 公開日 | 2013-10-30 | |||||
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| タイトル | ʻIdle and Extravagant Stories in Verseʼ: 400 Years of Narrative Poetry from Sir Gawain to Wordsworth | |||||
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| タイトル | ʻIdle and Extravagant Stories in Verseʼ: 400 Years of Narrative Poetry from Sir Gawain to Wordsworth | |||||
| 言語 | en | |||||
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| 資源タイプ識別子 | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 | |||||
| 資源タイプ | departmental bulletin paper | |||||
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| ID登録 | 10.34577/00000086 | |||||
| ID登録タイプ | JaLC | |||||
| 著者 |
Simons, Christopher E. J.
× Simons, Christopher E. J. |
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| 内容記述タイプ | Abstract | |||||
| 内容記述 | In the Preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads (1800), his first sustained piece of literary criticism, William Wordsworth establishes both stylistic and social objectives for English poetry. Wordsworth rails against the poor literary taste of his times, including ʻfrantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse.ʼ This paper considers the specific meaning of Wordsworthʼs attack on ʻidle and extravagant stories in verse,ʼ in the context of the history of narrative poetry in English literature, and Wordsworthʼs own narrative ballads. The paper begins by considering how to evaluate Wordsworthʼs criticisms of idleness and extravagance on a poetic level, and subsequently develops four criteria by which a narrative poem can be judged as idle or extravagant: if it lacks ʻworthʼ to the reader and society beyond mere diversion and entertainment; if its characters and action encourage idleness in the reader by imitation; if the poem lacks narrative and psychological realism; and if it contains excesses of language, description, and digression. The paper then applies this critical model to four narratives from four periods of English poetry: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucerʼs The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale; Popeʼs The Rape of the Lock; and finally, Wordsworthʼs Peter Bell. The paper demonstrates that each of these poems fails Wordsworthʼs critical test and is ʻidle and extravagantʼ to some degree, usually through the explicit design of the poet. The paper concludes that while carefully constructing his own poetical and social aims for narrative poetry in the Preface, Wordsworth fails to concede that many of the greatest narrative poems in English literature meet his conditions for ʻidle and extravagant stories in verse.ʼ Yet Wordsworthʼs own narrative poems achieve a balance between the festive morality of Gawain, and Chaucerʼs salacious language in The Canterbury Tales, by using stylistic extravagance to create a portrait of everyday human life which heightens the psychological realism, and hence the moral impact, of his ballad narratives. |
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| 書誌情報 |
人文科学研究 （キリスト教と文化） en : Humanities: Christianity and Culture 号 41, p. 31-70, 発行日 2013-03-31 |
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| 出版者 | 国際基督教大学キリスト教と文化研究所 | |||||
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| 収録物識別子 | 0073-3938 | |||||
