コージー ディヴィッド    David, COZY
   コージー ディヴィッド
   所属
国際学部 英語コミュニケーション学科
 
文学研究科 英米文学専攻 博士前期課程
   職種
教授
発行・発表の年月 2005
形態種別 学術雑誌
標題 Introduction
執筆形態 単著
掲載誌名 Tokyo: Printed Matter
巻・号・頁 5-15頁
概要 In this essay I argue that Donald Richie, in Tokyo Nights, reveals himself to be a modernist, not in the school of Joyce or Musil, but more akin to the effervescent experimentation of Ronald Firbank or Henry Green. Indeed, I suggest that one can extend the strand of modernism to which Richie’s Tokyo Nights belongs backward through Firbank, Green, and Compton-Burnett, all the way to Oscar Wilde, but that extending it forward is more difficult. Modernism as a whole, sometimes under the alias “postmodernism,” will live as long as we need art to make sense of the booming and buzzing chaos within which we live, but, that the strain of modernism to which Richie’s novel belongs, this particular way of making it new, is on the brink of extinction.
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