@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00027873, author = {小口, 一郎 and Koguchi, Ichiro}, journal = {IVY}, month = {Oct}, note = {William Wordsworth's Home at Grasmere gives the moment when the poet discovers his autonomous self while recounting its primary theme of paradisal redemption. This paper discusses the nature of the Wordsworthian autonomous self by referring to its genetic process in the poem and attempts to define the position the self has in English Romantic literature. The poem is motivated by two conflicting psychic drives, regressive and progressive, which we call "Utopian wish" and "millenarian drive" respectively, based on the theory Jean Servier expounds in Histoire de l'utopie. The professed movement of the poem, millenarian in its nature and aiming at spreading the bliss of Grasmere through the whole world, is counteracted by Utopian wish to retrograde into a metaphorical womb; the paradisal sphere Wordsworth can be confident of contracts as this dialectic is gradually dominated by Utopian wish, until he finds a core in his mind to be the only possible paradise,which is independent of natural background and can never be touched by others than himself. We call this mental core "autonomous self." The autonomous self is apparently marked by Utopian wish from this genetic point of view; however, when it reappears in the end of the poem, it has lost its Utopian character and is presented as an awe-inspiring mental abyss from which Utopian wish would withdraw. The reappearance is accompanied by the poet's words of denial to influnce from father figures such as Christian God or Milton, one of the most influential precursor poets for him. Servier also defines millenar­ianism the son's will to depose and replace the father figure which symbolizes patriarchal ruling order; hence paradoxically the autonomous self itself has to be regarded as a millenarian product. In the 1805 version of The Prelude, this oedipal patricidal wish coincides with millenarianism in two episodes during the French Revolution: one is the story of "Vaudracour and Julia" into which the poet's love affair with Annette Vallon is displaced, and the other is England's full-scale war against France. Both of these events are felt to be the most revolutionary or millenarian in his experience; for he is thrown into places where he is forced to realize that he is a revolting son against patriarchal order or his fatherland. The second of the "spots of time" is a testimony that an oedipal battle leads to the self's autonomy. Here young Wordsworth's unconscious ambivalence with his father's death is displaced into his conscious desire to go home, and as the text says, this kind of experience concurs with the moment when the poet feels absolute dominance of his mind over outward sense, which we can rephrase as the self's autonomy. However, the autonomy is qualified by Utopian wish. When we recall in Home at Grasmere the poet withdraws into the beautiful of nature faced with the apocalyptic terror the naked self provokes, it turns out that Grasmere is a Utopian convergent point where the poet takes refuge both from the world outside and the mind inside. This implies the Wordsworthian autonomous self cannot have duration in existence since it cannot retain its pure state being destined to be contaminated by external natural imagery any moment after its birth. Wordsworth's border situation between nature and the self distinguishes him from the later Romantics, whose minds are alienated from nature and fated to be imprisoned in their own internal labyrinths., 本論は、名古屋大学英文学会第31回シンポジウム,「ロマン主義はいずこへ」(1992年4月25日、名古屋大学)における口頭発表に基づく。}, pages = {23--42}, title = {内面からの帰郷者 : 『グラスミアの家』における自我の運命}, volume = {25}, year = {1992} }