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IWAI Shigeaki

General Education Division　Associate Professor

Last Updated :2024/04/25

Humanities & social sciences / Literature - British/English-languag / English Romanticism

2003/10 - 2003/12 University of London, Royal HollowayDigital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)Researcher

2001/10 - 2003/09 University of HertfordshireHigher Education Digitisation Service (HEDS)Digitisation Consultant

William Gilpin's _Tour to the Lakes_ and His Idea of "Picturesque"
IWAI Shigeaki
Ikoma Journal of Economics 15 (1) 127 - 142 2017/07
After publishing his An Essay upon Prints in 1768, William Gilpin began several tours around the British Island starting 1769. The records of his travels were published as a series later in his life. One of such writings, Tour to the Lakes published in 1786 was based on the record of his“picturesque tour"to the Lake District in 1772. While the subject of Gilpin's theory of picturesque beauty in An Essay upon Prints was artificial productions created by the masters of prints, in Tour to the Lakes his aesthetic theory was applied to evaluate the beauty of natural landscapes. The ideas of“picturesque eye"and“imagination"play important roles in his discussions of landscape beauty.

Visualizing the "Invisible" in Nature William Gilpin's "Principles of Picturesque Beauty" in His Wye Tour
IWAI Shigeaki
Ikoma Journal of Economics 近畿大学経済学会 12 (1) 21 - 45 1348-8686 2014/07
In his Observation on the River Wye published in 1782, William Gilpin criticizes the landscape descriptions made by the poet John Dyer in his landscape poem"Grongar Hill"（1726）. Gilpin's criticism is based on his "Principles of Picturesque Beauty" and he indicates that many of Dyer's landscape descriptions deviate from such principles. Why Gilpin is very strict on the "Principles of Picturesque Beauty" ? The author attributes Gilpin's adherence to the principles to his view of nature, and argues that his principles are the only means to visualize the"invisible"in nature, which is the harmonious wholeness hidden from the human eye.

The English Landscape Garden and the Idea of "Picturesque"
岩井茂昭
近畿大学教養・外国語教育センター紀要（外国語編）近畿大学教養・外国語教育センター 3 (2) 33 - 47 2185-6982 2013/03 [Refereed]

著者専攻: イギリス文化史

The Idea of "Picturesque" Reflected in the Claude Glass
岩井茂昭
近畿大学教養・外国語教育センター紀要（外国語編）近畿大学教養・外国語教育センター 2 (1) 97 - 111 2185-6982 2011/11 [Refereed]

著者専攻: 18-19世紀イギリス文化史

S.T. Coleridger's Aesthetic Organicism and Theory of Life
岩井茂昭
近畿大学英語研究会紀要近畿大学英語研究会 (1) 151 - 163 1882-7071 2008/02 [Refereed]

記事区分：原著

Preliminary Considerations on the Idea of "Organicism"
岩井茂昭
言語文化学会論集言語文化学会 (27) 163 - 176 0919-7656 2006/10

「ピクチャレスク」（"picturesque"）の概念史研究に関連する資料 ― ウィリアム・ギルピンの経歴と著作
岩井茂昭生駒経済論叢 16- (2) 69 (113) -76 (120) 2018/11

English Romanticism in terms of the History of Ideas
The Other Research Programs
Date (from‐to) : 1996 -2009