ジェームズ　アンドリュー　スタンレー   JAMES, Andrew Stanley   ジェームズ　アンドリュー　スタンレー    所属   明治大学  商学部    職種   専任教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2013/05
形態種別	著書
標題	Kingsley Amis: Antimodels and the Audience
執筆形態	単著
出版社・発行元	McGill-Queen's University Press
概要	While it has become commonplace to discount British poet and novelist Kingsley Amis as a "naive realist," a mere comedic novelist, even a misogynist and failed moralist, this book argues that Amis was seriously concerned with the role of the artist in society and explored this subject in many of his works. Throughout the first twenty years of his career, Amis used bad artists as whimsical characters, or antimodels, that helped identify his artistic preferences and fictional techniques. He became convinced that the relationship between an artist and his audience was reciprocal and that both the outer audience and the artist's inner circle must be held accountable for the production of poor literature. During the last twenty years of his career, Amis no longer concerned himself with satirizing bad artists, but instead explored ways of ameliorating them. This book shows that the development of antimodels as fully drawn characters and Amis's insistence upon reciprocity in the writer-reader relationship demonstrate that he was more than just a comedic writer, and was aware of himself as an artist with social responsibilities.
ISBN	978-0-7735-4136-8