Problems of Duality of Self and Time in Thomas Hardy's Novels

到目前为止，我一直是从主人公身上体现的时间意识的角度来研究哈代小说的。在2003-2005年的研究期间，我特别关注了一些短篇小说，作为托马斯·哈代长篇和复杂作品的补充作品。由于人们普遍认为短篇小说可以有效地突出小说主题的某些阶段，因此对短篇小说的研究使得一些重要的方面更加清晰和突出。托马斯·哈代在他的长篇小说和短篇小说中，以及在他的众多诗歌中，都论述了男女关系这一基本而普遍的主题。他的现代性和激进性的一部分被认为是男人和女人关系的不确定性和多变的方面：男人和女人都渴望“一个相宜的渠道”，正如短篇小说“一个富有想象力的女人”所贴切地描述的那样。该研究在研究期间每年在德岛大学综合文理学院的《语言文学杂志》上发表了三篇论文。我还在学术会议上发表了两次口头出版物，一次是在2004年的日本比较文学关西分会纪念会议上，另一次是在2005年的日本托马斯哈代学会会议上。这些口头出版物是关于哈代的，正如一般估计的那样，次要的小说。从研究期间的分析来看，建立了非常令人振奋和广阔的前景，这必将对托马斯·哈代小说的研究做出不小的贡献。

I have heretofore investigated Thomas Hardy's novels from the viewpoint of Time Consciousness reflected in the protagonists. During the research years 2003-2005, I have particularly focused on some short stories as complementary works to longer and more complicated works of Thomas Hardy. As short stories are generally regarded to be efective in highlighting some phases of the themes treated in the novels, the research on short stories has made some important aspects clearer and more prominent until now.Thomas Hardy treats the relationship of man and woman, the fundamental and universal theme, in the novels and short stories, and further in numerous poems. Some part of his modernity and radicalness is considered to be the uncertainty and changeable aspects of the relationship of man and woman : man and woman are hankering for ‘a congenial channel' as is aptly put in the short story ‘An Imaginative Woman.'The research has produced three papers published in Journal of Language and Literature The Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences The University of Tokushima every year in the research period. I also made two oral publications at academic meetings, one in the Kansai Branch Memorial Meeting of Japan Comparative Literature in 2004, the other in the Meeting of Japan Thomas Hardy Society in 2005. These oral publications are about Hardy's, as are generally estimated, lesser novels. From the analyses in the research period, very stimulating and expanding vista has been established, and this certainly will make not a small contributions to the study of Thomas Hardy's novels.