Studies in English Literature

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1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages Cover1-
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Article type: Index
1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages Toc1-
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ON "DOUBLE GENITIVES"

Kikuo Miyabe

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1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 1-35
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in the double genitive the person is obliquely represented and indirectly connected with the tragedy to the importunate insistence upon the genitive idea. This emphasizes the idea of genitivity. Thus, when the genitive notion is emphasized, this doubly sure way of expression (a friend of hers) is naturally preferred to of-genitives. However, it does not result that this modifies the meaning of "of". The preposition still remains genitival, forming a doubly expressed genitive, as Beckmann puts it. As above considered, double genitives are partitive in origin. But as time went on, they deviated from the original partitive notion, approaching to that of possession and agency in their meaning. The comparison with synonyms shows us, together with the characteristics of double genitives, that "of" is essentially the same with that of "of-genitives". Therefore "of" in double genitives should not be characterized as "appositional" (as Jespersen does it), but as genitival; and double genitives should be studied from the formal point of view, in so far as the meaning of their "of" is concerned. And then we are naturally enough led to doubt the adequacy of Jespersen's application of "appositional-of" to such expressions as "a duck of a boy", "a devil of a time", "a boy of ten years old." Other explanations should probably be attempted here.

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THE INDICATOR

EDMUND BLUNDEN

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1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 36-45
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ENGLISH LITERATURE AND THE SUPERNATURAL

Susumu Nomachi

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1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 46-60
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This essay is an experiment historically to trace Englishman's enthusiasm for the supernatural. The period extending from The Castle of Otranto to Melmoth (1765-1820) being regarded as the first period of the supernatural literature in England, the Victorian Age (1837-1901) may properly be understood as the second, and the present century as the third. The peculiarity in the second period may be summarized as the elements of science and common sense newly added to it, and the bridge between this and the preceding period may be found in Scott's Wandering Willie's Tale (1824) in which human elements are asserted in the face of the supernatural, while the one between the second and the third periods we may find in (for example) K. Tynan's The Picture on the Wall (1895) which gives a still stronger emphasis on the subtlety of human feeling and shows an effort towards an artistic perfection without leaving the work to become a mere tool to arouse a thrilling sensation. The horrible and the grotesque are elements rebellious against man's " life-feeling", and if made the centre of a literary work it becomes extremely difficult for the work to raise itself to an artistic height, and this is the very reason why human elements came to be emphasized, and tended to form the leading motives, even in the works of this kind.

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A TURNING-POINT OF BEN JONSON

Kyoichi Ono

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1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 61-74
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I. On the last day of the performance of The Poetaster, Ben Jonson declared that he would abandon Comedy and try his pen next time in Tragedy. This promise was fulfiled in Sejanus two years later, which, however, won for him little fame. Nevertheless this play seems to have a great significance in its relation to his masterpiece Volpone, and mark a turning-point in his life as a dramatist, which I am to show in this paper. II. One of the most remarkable features of Volpone, compared with his earlier plays, is that it has a serious and somewhat drastic tone, sometimes not unlike to that of tragedy. For the avarice depicted in Volpone is rather a 'crime' than a folly, while in his humour plays and comical satires his ridicule is wholly directed to 'follies' which result from unbalances of humours. Especially when Volpone, in spite of his wealth and means, swindles and teases the three legacy-hunters even at the risk of discovery of his evils, there we can see a desire to persue 'evil for evil's sake', such as is seen in Sejanus's insatiable ambition. And its ending is also far from comical serenity; for Mosca is overthrown, not by sagacity of the magistrates, but by Volpone's desperate spite at the risk of his own safety. As for the construction of this play, here was established the so-called Jonsonian method, which will be characterized by (a) singleness of motive, (b) consistent development of plot, (c) abruptness of catastrophe. III. And all of these characteristics are manifest in Sejanus: (a) the motive is kept to 'ambition' only even at the cost of historical' facts, (b) the plot is developed consistently along the execution of Sejanus's conspiracy, and (c) Sejanus falls headlong at the height of his prosperity. And the dismal tone is here almost decisive; for the strife between Sejanus and Tiberius, which is true conflict in this play, is that of craft against craft, and Sejanus's fall never means the victory of justice but the triumph of the more wicked. But the most striking feature in this play is Arruntius who may be taken for author's, exponent. When he repeatedly deplores levity of the people and foresees the appearance of another tyrant in Macro, we cannot but hear in his words the author's burning scorn of the ignorant people. IV. The reason of Jonson's internal change is never fully indicated. But it will be allowed to suppose that, as a result of the 'stage-quarrel,' he was driven to the distrust of the world. And concerning the technical mastery achieved in Volpone, that he had written Sejanus undeniably contributed to it.

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WORDSWORTH'S ETHICAL INTERPRETATION OF "NATURE"

Hideo Kano

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1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 75-91
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In 1850, Matthew Arnold wrote his Memorial Verses in memory of Wordsworth, who died on April 23rd. "The last poetic voice" was silent, he thought, because he was not sure that another nature-poet such as Wordsworth would reappear in the world. This piece of prophetic criticism was true and sincere. He himself was trying to recognise the immortal influence of Wordsworth's Nature and found it in the sense-beauty of Marguerite. The intellectual element of a modern poet in Arnold was too strong for him to see some mysterious grandeur of design in nature. Wordsworth was, happily, endowed with mystical insight into nature. When he was in despairing solitude, "being transformed into a cabbage" in the country, after the disillusionment of the French Revolution and the love-affair with Annette Vallon, he could again find new phases of natural beauty. Then he could recover the love of life, which began to expand from "kindred, friends, and playmates" to 'the human creature's absolute self". This is a splendid vision found in Nature, spiritual and religious. The sense-beauty which Arnold found in Nature was also his individual vision, but it could not become a moral force, because he failed to believe that Nature was ethical. He wandered about in nature like a "Scholar Gipsy" and found his destination in a romantic world, "where the Atlantic raves Outside the Western Straits." And the poet's vision is of "cloudy cliffs, through sheets of foam."

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Article type: Article
1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 92-98
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NORMAN LACEY, Wordsworth's View Consequences, Cambridge University of Nature and its Ethical Press, 1948, 8s., 6d.

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1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 98-100
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OTTO JESPERSEN, Growth and Structure of the English Language, Ninth edition Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1948

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1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 100-105
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T. S.

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1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 106-111
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1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 111-113
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1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 113-118
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1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 118-123
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Article type: Bibliography
1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 124-129
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Article type: Bibliography
1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 129-
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Article type: Appendix
1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 130-133
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Article type: Appendix
1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 133-
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Article type: Appendix
1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 133-139
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Article type: Appendix
1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 139-142
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Article type: Appendix
1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages App1-
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1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages App2-
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1950 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages App3-
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