The Structure of the Integration of the Reader's Horizon of Expectations into Soseki Studies

这一研究项目的目的是阐明夏目漱石如何处理文学理论中所称的读者期待视野(读者给文学文本带来的一系列期望)。通过这样做，就有可能理解他的小说--明治晚期和大正早期文学的代表作--的哪些部分与他们的时代相对应，哪些部分超越了那个时代。所采用的方法是分析一些读者可以推定为阅读过的书籍，并将它们与小说文本进行比较。朝日新闻的目标读者是新兴的中产阶级。我的结论是，通过融入中产阶级读者的期待视野，提高了连载小说的地位，同时，通过在某些方面令人失望，他试图提高他作品的文学价值。他作品的后一个方面当然是他们保留…的原因之一举个例子，在三四郎，现在大约是明治40(1907)，Soseki把女主人公Satomi Mineko变成了一个典型的以前的女学生。在这一点上，他可以说融入了读者对明治30年代流行的女学生小说的期待视野。但Soseki没有让Mineko以典型的女学生小说女主角的方式失去她的纯真，而是按照她哥哥的意愿，将她嫁给了她哥哥的法律研究生朋友，也就是一家之主。这正是小说中的生活方式，可以说是女性的教训，阐述了适合当代中产阶级家庭养育的女性的生活方式。因此，我们可以推测，许多读者发现很难专注于一套单一的期望。通过这种方式，索塞基在顺应读者期待的同时，在令人失望的同时，保护了他的小说免受时间的蹂躏。较少

The purpose of this research project was to clarify how Natsume Soseki dealt with what in literary theory is called the reader's horizon of expectations (the set of expectations that readers bring to a literary text). In so doing, it becomes possible to understand what parts of his novels, representative works of late Meiji and early Taisho literature, correspond to their era and what parts transcend that era. The method adopted was to analyze a number of books that readers of the Asahi Shinbun, which was aimed at a readership consisting of the emerging middle class, can be presumed to have read and comparing them to the texts of the novels. My conclusion was that while Soseki, by incorporating the middle class reader's horizon of expectations , raised the status of the serialized novel, at the same time, by disappointing those expectations in certain respects, he attempted to raise the literary value of his works. This latter aspect of his works is certainly one reason they retain the … More ir value to this day.To give one example, in Sanshiro, where the present is approximately Meiji 40(1907), Soseki made the heroine, Satomi Mineko, into a typical former girl student. In this, he can be said to have incorporated the reader's horizon of expectations concerning the female student novel that was popular in the Meiji 30s. But Soseki did not allow Mineko to lose her innocence in the manner of a typical female student novel heroine, instead marrying her to the law graduate friend of her older brother, the head of the household, in accordance with his wishes. This is precisely the way of life set forth in the novels which can be called lessons for women, which expounded the lifestyle appropriate for women brought up in contemporary middle class households. As a result, we can speculate that many readers found it difficult to focus on a single set of expectations. In this way, Soseki, while conforming to the reader's horizon of expectations, simultaneously, in disappointing those expectations, protected his novel against the ravages of time. Less