著者

杉山 雅梨華 Sugiyama Marika

出版者

名古屋大学大学院人文学研究科図書・論集委員会

雑誌

名古屋大学人文学フォーラム (ISSN:24332321)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.3, pp.259-272, 2020-03-31

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Takeo Kuwabara "Secondary Art: Modern Haiku"(1946) was known as a genre criticism toward the post-war haiku and tanka. Having criticized the feudalistic mentality for its modernization prevention and allowed militarism to be catered for, Kuwabara’s institution of the problem prompted reflection of not only the world of haiku and tanka, but also the Japanese culture as a whole. However, the immediate illustrated prospect after the war of Japanese literature by western literature researchers, represented by Kuwabara's “Secondary Art”, had never been assessed up to now, in favor of the easiness known as straightforward progression in the western modern literature path. Kuwabara introduced a questionnaire that had been reviewed in a mixture state of ten haiku by eminent people and five haikuby nameless people with the author names erased. This was a method borrowed from "Practical Criticism" (1929) written by I. A. Richards, whopreceded New Criticism in Britain and the United States. Thereafter, in "Introduction to Literature" (1950), Kuwabara investigated the three main points of Richards’s "Principles of Literary Criticism" (1924), 1. the consideration of aesthetic and daily experience as a continuous thing, 2. the analytical perception of the transfer process for readers to receive the work, and 3. the distinction between the usage of poetic language that would arouse emotions and prosaic language based on the post-war society context. Against the past orientation known as privileged authors and passive readers, Kuwabara had thought of the "communication" as an emphasizing concept for universality, and he dealt with the significant problem of general readers that rose along with commercialism. Hisresearch is not theory for creation nor reception theory but theory that considered literature socially and saw readers empirically.