THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PROSIMETRA

我们的研究目的是通过对不同语言、不同时代的文学作品的原始形式的比较研究，找出诗歌的本质。在许多作品中，散文和诗歌共存，相互影响，产生了另一种艺术品质，并进行了细致的分析。研究的作品有：日本文学《源氏物语》、中古小说、女性日记、中世纪史诗《平池物语》、《太平纪》、芭芭树游记、上田的《白岭》以及明治、大正时期的许多小说；从中国文学来看，有琉球时期的连诗、唐人时期的言情、元明时期的戏曲、明清时期的白话言情；从欧洲文学的《梅尼普讽刺》，但丁的《新生》，乌尔夫的《阿斯特里》，沃尔特·斯科特的历史小说，德国诗人歌德、克莱斯特、埃亨多夫、诺瓦利斯和斯托姆的故事，坡的插入诗的故事，马拉姆斯的散文诗，以及近代许多包含诗的小说。在所有的情况下，诗歌给它所处的散文文本带来了不同的艺术效果，我们可以说，围绕它的散文，甚至整个作品本身，都略有改变，或者被赋予了一些提升的品质。相反，如果散文本身很美，诗歌就会增加它的力量，或者揭示出原本无法识别的意义。只有在非常罕见的情况下，我们才能看到这两种力量同时运作，而诗歌又深深地影响着彼此。《源氏物语》中的《宇见》后半部分、秋成的《白胺》和马拉美的《宣言》就是我们合作期间学习的三部作品。

The aim of our research is to find out the essense of poetry through the comparative study of prosimetrum form of literary works in various languages and different ages. many works in which prose and poetry coexist and affect each other to produce another artistic quality,are taken up and minutely analyszed. The works studied are: from Japanese literature "Genji Monogatari" and middleancient novels,female diaries, Medieval epics such as "Heike Monogatari","Taiheiki", Basho'sjournals of travels, A.Ueda's "Shiramine", and many novels of Meiji and Taisho Period; From Chinese literature the linked poetry of Rikucho period, the romances of T'ang period, the dramas of Yuang and Ming periods, and the romances in colloquial speech in Ming and Ch'ing period;from European literature "The Menippean satire",Dante's "La Vita Nova", Honore D'Urfe's "L'Astree",historical novels by Walter Scott, stories of German poets such as Goethe, Kleist, Eichendorf, Novalis and Storm, Poe's tales in which poems are inserted, Mallarmes prose poems, and many novels in recent times Which include poems.In all cases the poetry brings various artistic results to the prose text in which it is situated,and we can say the prose around it or even the whole work itself is slightly changed or given some elevated qualities. Conversely,in cases when the prose itself is very beautiful the poetry put in it increases its power or reveals meanings that could not be otherwise recognized.Only in very rare cases we can see these two powers simaltaniously operating and poetry affecting each other deeply. The latter parts of 'Utsusemi' in "Genji Monogatari", Akinari's "Shiramine" and Mallarme's "Declaration foraine" are three such works we have studied during our cooperation term.