Williams' Sociology of Literature

ウィリアムズ ノ ブンガク シャカイガク

ヨシザワ, ヤヨイ

Yoshizawa, Yayoi

オオサカ ダイガク ニンゲン カガクブ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

英語

文学

形式

感情の構造

「わかる社会」

Raymond Williams

literature

forms

structure of feeling

knowable community

The relation of "Literature" and "Society" is basic problem not only for sociology of literature but also for the studies of cultural "text" over all. Forward the exploration of the problem, for the first, this paper aims to reconsider the literary studies by Raymond Williams( 1921-87,) from both sides of his theory and practice. In cultural analysis, Williams applied original conceptions: "forms" and "structure of feeling". "Forms" meant relations of individual and society, and they perform the "mediation" that reproduces meanings and values in the society. "Structure of feeling" meant something like meanings and values or a kind of cultural side of the society. Applying them in literary studies, he attempted to resolve some aporia of hitherto literary studies. In The Country and The City (1973), Williams criticized some 19-20th century novels in the point of "forms". Furthermore he used some his original conceptions, named "knowable community", and so on. Though they were very complicated and not necessarily perfect, they seemed to have potentialities for development of the sociology of literature.

英語