Blurring Contours of a Novel

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  • Inokuma Keiko
    College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

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  • 小説ジャンルの境界線
  • Reading Brave New World
  • 『すばらしい新世界』を読む

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Prose can only be loosely defined as writing that lacks metrical structure. Consequently, a novel, which has to be constituted by that loosely-defined prose, cannot help lacking or resisting some formal definition. This paper, accepting such elusiveness of what a novel is, analyses a work, Brave New World, published by Aldous Huxley in 1932. Although the novelist was often criticised as a mere essayist, and his novels were dismissed as poorly executed, my discussion first tries to consider what lies behind all these criticisms. It thus tries to shed light on some vague boundary separating what can be and cannot be admitted as a (good) novel. All these analyses hopefully help us to understand that Brave New World attempts to delineate the relationship between an individual and a totalitarian society in its own way and in its own field --- that is beyond our epistemic limitations.

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  • CRID
    1390573242620845440
  • DOI
    10.11480/kyoyobukiyo.2022.52_39
  • ISSN
    2433359X
    03863492
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Article Type
    journal article
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • KAKEN
  • Abstract License Flag
    Disallowed

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