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服飾と身体の交錯 : Othelloにおけるハンカチ再考
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Item type | 紀要論文 / Departmental Bulletin Paper(1) | |||||
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タイトル | 服飾と身体の交錯 : Othelloにおけるハンカチ再考 | |||||
言語 | ja | |||||
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その他のタイトル | The Interplay of Clothing and the Body : A Reconsideration of the Handkerchief in Othello | |||||
言語 | en | |||||
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八鳥, 吉明
× 八鳥, 吉明× Hachitori, Yoshiaki |
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アクセス権 | open access | |||||
アクセス権URI | http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 | |||||
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内容記述タイプ | Abstract | |||||
内容記述 | In early modern England, representations of clothing and the body were transformed in remarkable and dynamic ways. This paper investigates some facets of the interplay of clothing and the body in that age by elucidating their meanings as represented in William Shakespeare's Othello. In Othello, as is often pointed out, the handkerchief is a core element of the tragedy. Indeed, the handkerchief encompasses extremely complex dimensions of meaning in precipitating it. One conspicuous perspective, in particular, presents and problematizes the handkerchief in relation to the body, especially the female body. In the civilizing process of early modern England, the handkerchief generated new concepts of cleanliness on the basis of which the female body was redefined. Within the ruling discourses engendered and reinforced by the patriarchal ideology, the orifices of the normative female body were focused on and controlled. As the country was modernized, it was redefined as enclosed, that is, hortus conclusus. Paradoxically, driven by male anxieties about women's capacity for transgression, the female body was also conceptualized as a leaky vessel. These are the contexts that take on great importance when Othello gives Desdemona a handkerchief. To Othello, a fetishist caught in male anxiety, the gift warrants Desdemona's chastity. Losing the handkerchief through Iago's vicious plot, Desdemona, in the eyes of Othello, is transformed into an unchaste and incontinent woman. Her body, which had been an enclosed garden, is reduced to a leaky vessel with a "moist" hand, and ultimately to "water." Furthermore, the handkerchief is associated with body parts, such as the eye, nose, ears, and lips. Bearing contiguous and metonymic relation to these bodily orifices, the handkerchief also develops intricate metaphoric relations with them. Desdemona's eyes, identified as the equivalent of the handkerchief, signify her chastity. In contrast, the handkerchief accentuates Othello's eyes as voyeuristic and surveillant. Moreover, juxtaposed with the handkerchief in Othello's speech, the nose becomes a metaphoric phallus, the ears connote the idea of auricular conception or impregnation characteristic of this play, and the lips easily evoke images of kisses or kissing. When associated with the eye, nose, ears, and lips, the handkerchief represents condensation and displacement of many ideas and images. They are used to define Desdemona's (female) body and expose Othello's male anxiety. The "Rainbow Portrait" of Queen Elizabeth I, which depicts the Queen wearing a cloak covered with ears, eyes, and ambiguous lips, serves as a point of reference. While this portrait can be interpreted as a political allegory aimed at mystifying and reinforcing Elizabeth's monarchic authority by means of such emblems as surveillance, desire, silence, and chastity, it simultaneously represses misogynistic anxieties about the female body. The negative aspects of the female body both represented and repressed via Elizabeth's mantle are projected and reflected on Desdemona's body. Once deprived of the handkerchief as a cover for virtue and chastity, Desdemona's body is revealed as grotesque and sexual, and it becomes the object of Othello's suspicious eyes. Thus, as a textile, a texture, and a text reflecting and substantiating the ideas of the female body based on the patriarchal ideology, the handkerchief is a crucial element in the development of this tragedy. Desdemona's handkerchief, however, embraces still other dimensions of meaning that parallel and match the above. It becomes a (material) basis on which Desdemona constructs her identity or subjectivity. Endeavoring to retrieve the handkerchief and resist having its interpretation controlled and appropriated by Othello and Iago, Desdemona seeks another possibility for the handkerchief, something that will prevent the female body from being enclosed, defined, or eliminated. Emilia, Iago's wife, plays an important role in reclaiming female agency. She disapproves of the connection of clothing to sexual desire for the female body. This highlights the arbitrary interpretation Othello imposes on the handkerchief and on Desdemona. In addition, by leveling the senses of the female body, Emilia invalidates the arbitrary institutional differences between the female and male bodies. Exposing the precarious interplay of clothing and the body, as seen with the handkerchief, Othello also points to prospects for use of clothing to help women establish their agency, producing faultlines in the discourses and representations of femininity constructed (through the very use of clothing and female body) within the patriarchal ideology. | |||||
言語 | en | |||||
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内容記述タイプ | Other | |||||
内容記述 | 本論は,文部科学省平成20-21年度「人文学及び社会科学における共同研究の整備の推進事業」の支援による服飾文化共同研究拠点(文化女子大学文化ファッション研究機構)における共同研究(「演劇論および身体論的視座からの近代初期英国における服飾文化に関する研究」(共同研究番号20010,統括者 滝川睦))の成果の一部であり,第48回シェイクスピア学会(2009年10月3日,於筑波大学)において行なわれた口頭発表に加筆・修正を加えたものである。 | |||||
言語 | ja | |||||
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出版者 | 名古屋大学英文学会 | |||||
言語 | ja | |||||
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出版者 | The society of english literature and linguistics Nagoya University | |||||
言語 | en | |||||
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言語 | jpn | |||||
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資源タイプ識別子 | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 | |||||
資源タイプ | departmental bulletin paper | |||||
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出版タイプ | VoR | |||||
出版タイプResource | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 | |||||
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収録物識別子タイプ | PISSN | |||||
収録物識別子 | 0914-2266 | |||||
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en : IVY 巻 42, p. 1-22, 発行日 2010-03-30 |
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