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A Srudy on the Functions of Cultural Representations in the Reception of Shakespeare's Works

Research Project

Project/Area Number 02451060
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 英語・英文学(アメリカ語・アメリカ文学)
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

TAKAHASHI Yasunari  University of Tokyo, Department of English, Professor, 教養学部, 教授 (20012297)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) TANJI Ai  University of Tokyo, Department of English, Associate Professor, 教養学部, 助教授 (90133686)
TAKAMURA Tadaaki  University of Tokyo, Department of English, Associate Professor, 教養学部, 助教授 (10092256)
NARITA Atsuhiko  University of Tokyo Department of English, Professor, 教養学部, 教授 (30017363)
IZUBUCHI Hiroshi  University of Tokyo Department of English, Professor, 教養学部, 教授 (40016621)
YAMANOUCHI Hisaaki  University of Tokyo Department of English, Professor, 教養学部, 教授 (30108203)
TAKADA Yasunari  University of Tokyo, Department of English, Associate Professor (10116056)
Project Period (FY) 1990 – 1991
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1991)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,600,000)
Fiscal Year 1991: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1990: ¥3,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000)
KeywordsRepresentation / Shakespeare / Reception / The Modern / Text / Culture / Universality / Particularity / 文化表象 / 比喩 / 歴史 / 自然 / センス / 論理性
Research Abstract

The functional roles of cultural representations Shakespeare's works have had to play in their reception can be classified in the following three categories. (1) Such concept as was not yet given a culturally fixed representation in Shakespeare's times but was gradually to gain its cultural fixation in representation ; e. g., the representation of the "revolutionary assassination" in Julius Caesar was to be provided with historical substantiation in the course of the modern Western history, which is formed by such significant revolutions as the Glorious Revolution and the French Revolution. In contrast, what was conceived as pastoral in the last plays was later to be given a culturally marked representation, "pastoral. "(2) Such concept as was given a culturally fixed representaion in Shakespeare's times but was gradually to lose its cultural fixation in representation ; e. g., the ancient world of "the Roman Plays" was dintinctly characterized by its differences and particularities, i. e., Romanitas, but it was to be universalized, under the influence of the encomium of Shakespeare, into the representational world common to everyone, i. e., Humanitas. (3) Since the mid-nineteenth century Shakespeare's works themselves have become a mode of representation which holds valid almost everywhere and any time : if there be any work of art for the entire humanity it is Shakespeare's. This incomparable functional role Shakespeare has come to enjoy was made possible by the as much incomparable editorial accomplishment represented by the "Globe edition" of Shakespeare's text.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1991 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1990 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All Other

All Publications (2 results)

  • [Publications] 出淵 博: "終わりからの始まりーイェ-ツの詩の危機ー" 『想像力の変容』(研究社). (1991)

    • Related Report
      1990 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 高田 康成: "『コリオレイナス』第一幕第一場ー身体をめぐる冒険ー" 『シェイクスピア全作品諞』(研究社). (1992)

    • Related Report
      1990 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1990-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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