Type: article
Abstract: Willima Morris was a designer.As I mentioned his manneristic approach to artistic drawings in my 2023 research paper, when he drew the designs of leaves, grasses, creepers, and flowers for wallpapers, he carefully observed their real forms and shapes in the outside world and modified them to correspond well to his inner mental images of nature in such a way that he unconsciously denied the mathematical and geometrical perspective nurtured by the scientific mind during the Renaissance.In addition, when he depicted the landscapes in his literary works, it seems that he emphasized random and asymmetric aspects of nature with the same viewpoints as in his painting.My attempt to author this paper focuses on this point.In other words, I have delved into his travelogues to Iceland and his fantasy novels to reveal his literary style as mannerism, which alludes to his hidden anxiety visionally and psychologically with serpentine expressions.Even though he altered the method of presentations from drawing to writing, his insight must not have changed at all.This view has encouraged me to step into a bold challenge as a naïve but curious and enthusiastic story reader.Therefore, this paper departs with Morris's translation of Odyssey of Homer, which is a meandering detour to reach the destination, though.
Author: 山村, 嘉雄
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7208553992