徳島大学 教育・研究者情報データベース(EDB)

1. 山内 暁彦([徳島大学.大学院社会産業理工学研究部.社会総合科学域.国際教養系.英語圏分野]/[徳島大学.総合科学部.社会総合科学科.国際教養コース])

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(英) Structural Complexity in "The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen

(日) アーサー・マッケンの「パンの大神」の錯綜した形式について

(英) This essay examines structural features of "The Great God Pan," describing the relationship between main characters, the difficulty in grasping the time scheme of the story, the interruption in the description of strange occurrences, and the significance of letters, memoirs, reports and Latin inscriptions. Attention is paid to why the novella has such a complicated structure, why readers must appreciate the process of rearranging the order of things described in random order and why readers should imagine what is not written explicitly in the story due to the restrictive morality at the time of the publication. There is also discussion of how documents are inserted in the narrative in order to help readers understand plot and main theme and understand how the god Pan symbolizes situations in which ordinary people are not aware of the hidden reality beneath the surface of daily life. The novella should be treated as a peculiar story that arouses a sense of mystery rather than being a mere horror story.

(日) アーサー・マッケンの怪奇小説『パンの大神』の複雑な構成について，主要な人物の相互の関係が把握しづらい点や，出来事の記述が時系列に沿っておらず叙述が錯綜している点，さらには，事の真相を敢えて明示しない手法と，作中に様々な文書を包含している点などを検討しながら，本作品は，単なる恐怖小説ではなく，内抱する怪異な内容と複雑な形式とが相まって読者に恐怖心よりはむしろ不思議な感覚を引き起こさせる特色を備えている，と論じた．