Great Expectationsにおける繰り返される虚構 : Charles Dickensの世界劇場

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  • Repetitious Fiction in Great Expectations : Charles Dickens's Theatrum Mundi
  • Great Expectations ニ オケル クリカエサレル キョコウ : Charles Dickens ノ セカイ ゲキジョウ

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In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens depicts realization of fictitious information and feelings through repetition, such as Pip's love for Estella. This study investigates how the repetition of information makes fiction real in the novel, analyzing two plays as other examples: Macbeth and Coriolanus written by William Shakespeare. In these three works, not only the repeated fiction become or at least affect or change the reality, but also two kinds of media in different levels are found. In this paper, they are called Legion in the New Testament and the beast with many heads in Coriolanus respectively. This division is useful to understand how a medium works in the process of making fiction real. The theater in the real world is the Legion. For, the play is performed not to a specific individual but to the whole audience. The theater obscures identifiable individuals and creates a group which is real but fictional in function. The audience becomes the beast with many heads. The part-publication, the medium in which Great Expectations was published resembles the theater; it creates a readership much like an audience. This medium made Dickens conscious of the fiction-reality correlation.

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  • 英米文化

    英米文化 45 (0), 41-55, 2015

    英米文化学会

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