@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00028143, author = {岩田, 託子 and Iwata, Yoriko}, journal = {IVY}, month = {Nov}, note = {The Punch and Judy show has been most popular among people for 350 years as English Literature has been abundant in references to it for almost as long. These simple, unsophisticated wooden puppets have charmed writers of all kinds. The ways in which authors have dealt with the Punch and Judy show in their own works can be categorized as follows: I. References: 1. Viewers of the performance: location, audience, time etc. 2. (1) as simile: as pleased as Punch (2) as metaphor: Rudyard Kipling, "Baa Baa, Black Sheep" II. Structural Functions: 1. Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop. 2. Oe Kenzaburo, The Quilp Troupe. III. Signifiers: 1. E. M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Howards End. 2. Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry, Boating for Beginners. Viewers of the performance in literature (I-1.) are not discussed in this essay, as researchers have already traced this theme thoroughly. However, examples of Punch as (1) simile and (2) metaphor (I-2.) are briefly introduced. More distinctive cases are discussed next where each plot is intermingled with the Punch and Judy show. Dickens describes a Punchman and a "bottler," his partner, most vividly and completely in The Old Curiosity Shop. At the same time, it is the traveling performers who give a clue to solve the mystery and the complicated relationship is finally settled (II-1.). A Japanese Nobel prize winner Oe Kenzaburo, in a way, incorporates The Old Curiosity Shop into his novel, The Quilp Troupe. The hero of the novel, a high school student, reads Dickens' novel and learns a lot from it as a means to cope with the world around him (II-2.). Both novelists, Dickens and Oe, understand how deeply people are bewitched by the Punch show because both novelists themselves are best aware of its charms. The Punch and Judy shows in these novels are central to the novels and develop the plot in each. Finally, Punch and Judy as signifiers exemplifies how authors may charge Punch with much more significance than the usual, familiar performances (III-1.). E. M. Forster understands Punch so well in its deepest sense that Punch gives a clue to grasping human natures. Two examples in Jeanette Winterson (III-2.) show how the author modifies the Punch and Judy as she likes for she fully understands it. According to Winterson, Punch performs on the street somewhere in Middle East town or upon the rivers as she chooses in her fiction. Punch appears in a visionary world created by the author's imagination. Punch signifies her particular creativity., 本稿は,2012年度名古屋大学英文学会サマーセミナー(7月6日)におけるパンチ&ジュディDVD上映つき講演に加筆・修正したものである。}, pages = {93--108}, title = {パンチ&ジュディ350年と英文学}, volume = {46}, year = {2013} }