著者

田中 祐介

出版者

日本近代文学会

雑誌

日本近代文学 (ISSN:05493749)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.87, pp.49-64, 2012-11-15

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A number of studies in the field of the intellectual history of modern Japan have analyzed from a variety of angles the importance of the discovery of the concept of "society" in the public arena after World War I. However, its effect on literary history has not been explored fully to this day. This paper attempts to explicate how the awareness of society affected literary circles and literary expressions by reexamining the significance of the "Socialization of Literary Art" debate in 1920. This debate was conducted primarily in the form of an article that attracted a number of comments by different critics in the Yomiuri newspaper under the title, "The Socialization of Literary Art. "This paper argues that the movement engulfed the entire literary world and explicates how the conception of society transformed the literary discourse of the time, which idealized "the self," "character," and "universality."