「애스펀의 서류」: 삶과 예술의 주제에 의한 또 하나의 변주
“The Aspern Papers”: Another Variation on the Theme of Life and Art
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This paper aims at analyzing Henry James’s “The Aspern Papers” in terms of one of remarkable topics among English intellectuals in the late 19th century: ‘What can replace religion?’ or ‘redemption of society by art.’ John Ruskin, William Morris, and Matthew Arnold discussed an important role of art in the amelioration of society. But, following their ideas on art, Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde gave it a status of religion and an absolute value alienated from society and life. The anonymous first person narrator worships Jeffrey Aspern as a “god” and he is his “minister.” In order to serve his god he carries the war into Miss Bordereau’s palazzo and tries to get Aspern’s papers from her. He entices Misses Bordereau into helping him get the papers by working the garden and giving flowers to them. He plays a role of a gallant gentleman asking a favour of a beautiful woman, which is but his deception. Actually, he is immeasurably insensitive to Tita’s feelings and has no common human sympathies, because he worships a god of art without life. Juliana Bordereau is called an “old witch” by the narrator, but she doesn’t consider Aspern’s papers as a fetish just as he does and even in the face of death she is practical and positive in securing Tita’s future happiness. Tita who is simple and ingenuous depends on her aunt, at first, and then on the narrator, but she initiates her life of liberation and love and develops her “force of soul.” Juliana and Tita are quite sure of the primacy of their present life unlike the narrator who proves to be only an actual thief as a result of his absolute devotion to the god of art.
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This paper aims at analyzing Henry James’s “The Aspern Papers” in terms of one of remarkable topics among English intellectuals in the late 19th century: ‘What can replace religion?’ or ‘redemption of society by art.’ John Ruskin, William Morris, and Matthew Arnold discussed an important role of art in the amelioration of society. But, following their ideas on art, Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde gave it a status of religion and an absolute value alienated from society and life. The anonymous first person narrator worships Jeffrey Aspern as a “god” and he is his “minister.” In order to serve his god he carries the war into Miss Bordereau’s palazzo and tries to get Aspern’s papers from her. He entices Misses Bordereau into helping him get the papers by working the garden and giving flowers to them. He plays a role of a gallant gentleman asking a favour of a beautiful woman, which is but his deception. Actually, he is immeasurably insensitive to Tita’s feelings and has no common human sympathies, because he worships a god of art without life. Juliana Bordereau is called an “old witch” by the narrator, but she doesn’t consider Aspern’s papers as a fetish just as he does and even in the face of death she is practical and positive in securing Tita’s future happiness. Tita who is simple and ingenuous depends on her aunt, at first, and then on the narrator, but she initiates her life of liberation and love and develops her “force of soul.” Juliana and Tita are quite sure of the primacy of their present life unlike the narrator who proves to be only an actual thief as a result of his absolute devotion to the god of art.
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