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''Winesburg, Ohio'' (full title: ''Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life'') is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson. The work is structured around the life of protagonist George Willard, from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandonment of Winesburg as a young man. It is set in the fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio (not to be confused with the actual Winesburg), which is based loosely on the author's childhood memories of Clyde, Ohio. Mostly written from late 1915 to early 1916, with a few stories completed closer to publication, they were "...conceived as complementary parts of a whole, centered in the background of a single community."〔Phillips (1951), 17-18〕 The book consists of twenty-two stories, with the first story, "The Book of the Grotesque", serving as an introduction. Each of the stories shares a specific character's past and present struggle to overcome the loneliness and isolation that seems to permeate the town. Stylistically, because of its emphasis on the psychological insights of characters over plot, and plain-spoken prose, ''Winesburg, Ohio'' is known as one of the earliest works of Modernist literature.〔Dunne (2005), 44〕〔Stouck (1996), 229〕〔Anderson (1994), 73-74〕 ''Winesburg, Ohio'' was received well by critics despite some reservations about its moral tone and unconventional storytelling. Though its reputation waned in the 1930s, it has since rebounded and is now considered one of the most influential portraits of pre-industrial small-town life in the United States.〔Updike (1996), 194〕 In 1998, the Modern Library ranked ''Winesburg, Ohio'' 24th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.〔"(100 Best Novels )". Random House. Accessed 22 July 2011.〕 ==Genre== Though there is practically no argument about the unity of structure within ''Winesburg, Ohio'', few scholars have concluded that it fits the standards of a conventional novel.〔Ingram (1971), 149-151〕〔Mellard (1968), 1312〕 Instead, it is typically placed "...midway between the novel proper and the mere collection of stories,"〔Cowley (1974), 57〕 known as the short story cycle.〔See Ingram (1971), 13-25, for an excellent discussion of short story cycles〕 Aside from its structural unity, the common setting, characters, symbolism and "consistency of mood"〔Howe (1966), 100〕 are all additional qualities that tie the stories together despite their initial publication as separate tales. Promoted to younger writers by Anderson himself,〔Ingram (1971), 148〕 ''Winesburg, Ohio'' has served as a representative early example of the modern short story cycle in American letters.〔Crowley (1990), 21〕 Comparisons between ''Winesburg, Ohio'' and Jean Toomer's ''Cane'' (1923), Ernest Hemingway's ''In Our Time'' (1925), William Faulkner's ''Go Down, Moses'' (1942), and several of John Steinbeck's works, among others, demonstrate the pervasiveness of the formal innovations made in Anderson's book.〔〔Cowley (1974), 57-58〕〔Crowley (1990), 14-15〕 The focus on George Willard's development as a young man and a writer has also led some critics to put ''Winesburg, Ohio'' within the tradition of "the American boy book, the ''Bildungsroman'',〔Fussell (1966), 107〕 and the ''Künstlerroman''".〔Crowley (1990), 15, 21〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Winesburg, Ohio (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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