@article{oai:soar-ir.repo.nii.ac.jp:00017717,
 author = {市川,  嘉章},
 journal = {信州大学教養部紀要. 第一部, 人文科学},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {In The Tragic Muse Henry James makes a comparison between the world of art and the world of affairs, through the eyes of twin heroes, whose alternative viewpoints make a vivid image of "The Tragic Muse", the heroine of the novel. Coming from the Philistine world of the English upper-class, the two young Englishmen, Nick and Peter, make an amateurish and heretical effort in devoting themselves to artistic activities. Miriam, "The Tragic Muse", on the other hand, who is an ambitious and egoistic Bohemian but closely connected with the two amateurs, begins a distinguished professional career on the stage. The difference between a professional artist and dilettantes, which is caused by the difference of their class idiosyncrasies, leads us to an understanding of their different attitudes towards the arts to which they have committed themselves. Miriam is willing to sacrifice anything else but art so as to attain a professional success. However, the two aristocratic amateurs, decent but unable to follow the Bohemian's vulgar and gross mode of life, compromise themselves by returning to the Philistine world again. Influenced by French naturalism, James describes the fate of the artists oscillating between the two worlds, Philistine and Bohemian, and after all, bound within the scope of society to which they originally belonged. But his method of description is so psychological that there are described the protagonists' inner struggles for the art as well as the charm of the contrasted worlds in the complex structure of the novel. It must be added that explication de texte is the most important key adopted here for the analysis of the picturesque artist-life in two ways. James's own comment on the novel in the Preface of the New York Edition and some interpretations by Dorothea Krook, Lyall H. Powers, John L. Kimmey, etc. are taken as useful references for this study., Article, 信州大学教養部紀要. 第一部, 人文科学 6: 73-92(1972)},
 pages = {73--92},
 title = {The Tragic Muse における芸術家の生き方},
 volume = {6},
 year = {1972}
}