2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A study on the relation between imitation and imagination in Italian poetics between the second half of the 16th and 17th centuries

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23520376
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	European literature (English literature excluded)
Research Institution	Kyoto University (2013) Osaka University (2011-2012)
Principal Investigator	MURASE YUJI 京都大学, 文学研究科, 准教授 (10324873)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	模倣 / 想像 / 16世紀イタリア / Torquato Tasso / 像 / 詩論
Research Abstract	In 16th century Italian poetics, the concept of "imitation" played an important role. This "imitation"-the method of reproducing from an object its faithful image- had aspects opposed to the poet's personal imagination. This study tried to investigate what 16th- and 17th- century Italian poets thought of the relation between "imitation" and "imagination", by analyzing important poetics between the second half of the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries. Three tendencies were found: (1) "imagination" was perceived as being complementary to "imitation"; (2) "imitation" was respected but "imagination" was considered important regardless of the former; (3) "imitation" was perceived negatively.

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