Reconsidering the Influence of Rudyard Kipling and Herbert Spencer on Jack London. -Reconsidering "Jack London's Debut as a Short Story Writer"

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  • ラドヤード・キプリングとハーバート・スペンサーが ジャック・ロンドンに与えた影響についての再考察 「ジャック・ロンドン,デビュー物語」再考
  • ラドヤード ・ キプリング ト ハーバート ・ スペンサー ガ ジャック ・ ロンドン ニ アタエタ エイキョウ ニ ツイテ ノ サイコウサツ : 「 ジャック ・ ロンドン,デビュー モノガタリ 」 サイコウ

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The aim of this paper is to reconsider the influence of Rudyard Kipling and Herbert Spencer on Jack London as discussedin my paper, "Jack London's Debut as a Short Story Writer" published in March, 2014. The discussion on this issue was based onWhite Logic, a study of London's short stories by James I. McClintock. However, Author Under Sail by Jay Williams, published inNovember 2014, illuminates McClintock's misunderstandings of Kipling and Spencer's influence with respect to London's short storywriting techniques and his conceptions of literary evolution. Williams suggests that London had already developed his techniques ofwriting short stories before he read Kipling's stories, that Kipling's poetry, not prose, influenced London's writing, and that Londondidn't get from Spencer's Philosophy of Style his own ideas of style and literary evolution developed in his essay, "Phenomena ofLiterary Evolution."

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    紀要 10 71-77, 2016-03-31

    名寄市立大学

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