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A Study of Travel Writings in the. 18^<th-> and 19^<th-> Century English Literature

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10610459
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 英語・英米文学
Research InstitutionMeisei University (1999-2001)
The University of Tokyo (1998)

Principal Investigator

KASAHARA Yorimichi  Meisei University, Faculty of Humanities, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (00194712)

Project Period (FY) 1998 – 2001
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Keywordsphysico-theology / contemplation of nature / sublimity / expansion of self / deism / 自然神学(physico-theology) / 廃墟 / 崇高 / 自然観照 / 自我の拡大 / Byron,George Gordon / Dyer,John / Bryant,W.C. / Cole,Thomas
Research Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to see how, in travel writings in the 18^<th>- and 19^<th>- century English literature, the traveller views nature, externalises his inner self, and transforms the outer world in his description. The study began with the most popular work of the genre, that is, Lord Byron' s Childe Harold' s Pilgrimage. The tentative result obtained at the end of the first two years was that digressions in Byron' s works originate from the expansion of narrator' s (that in turn is Byron' s) self-consciousness stimulated first by viewing sublimity in nature, secondly by giving the sublimity verbal descriptions, and finally by the act of speaking of himself.
In 2000-02, the main focus has gradually shifted from travel writings to topographical or physico-theological poetry of the period. Of all the works studied, James Thomson' s Seasons is the center of the present study.
In such physico-theological poetry as James Thomson' s Seasons, the process of praising the Creator by means of minute description of physical nature merges with the process of praising the harmonised-order of the moral world, or man' s inner or spiritual world, which was considered to be in correspondence with the material or outer world. Thus viewing sublimity in nature readily merges with viewing sublimity in man' s inner world, thus being the cause of expansion of narrator' s self-awareness, which in turn may, in the latter half of the 18c poetry, become the cause of the physical appearance of the narrator in the poem, or further occasion the narrator speaking of himself in the poem.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2001 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • 1999 Annual Research Report
  • 1998 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (20 results)

All Other

All Publications (20 results)

  • [Publications] 笠原順路: "Persy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias"-文法構造の断片化、そして《時》の勝利へ"英語青年. 第147巻. 20-21 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 笠原順路: "「教訓」について"ふぉ-ちゅん. 12号. 6-8 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kasahara Yorimichi: "Meditations on the Acropolis"明星大学研究紀要-人文学部-. 第36号. 39-47 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 笠原順路: "「古城ドーナディッラ」-ある廃墟詩"松浦暢教授古稀記念論集刊行委員会編『水の流れに-松浦暢教授古稀記念論集』(中央公論事業出版部). 208(13)-199(22) (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kasahara Yorimichi: "Meditations on Byronic Ruins"東京大学大学院総合文化研究科超域文化科学専攻編『超域文化科学紀要』. 第4号. 59-80 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 笠原順路: "『貴公子ハロルドの巡礼』に脱線の起源に関する審美学的考察"高橋康也 編『逸脱の系譜』(研究社出版). 387-408 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Raizis, M.B., ed.: "Byron : A Poet for All Seasons"Messolonghi, Greece : Messolonghi Byron Society. 306 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ksahara Yorimichi: "Parcy Bysshe Shelley, 'Ozymandias' : A Syntactic Fragmentation, and towards the Triumph of Time (in Japanese)"Rising Generation. Vol., 147. 20-21 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kasahara Yorimichi: ""0n Morals" (in Japanese)"Fortune. Vol. 12. 6-8 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kasahara Yorimichi: ""Meditations on the Acropolis" (in English)"Research Bulletin of Meisei University, Faculty of Humanities. Vol. 36. 39-47 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kasahara Yorimichi: "Dornaigil : A Ruin Poem (in Japanese)"Writ in Water : Festschrift for Professor Matsuura Tohru ed. by tne Editorial Committee for the Festschrift for Professor Matuura Tohru (Chuo-Koron, 2000). 208(13)-199(22)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ksahara Yorimichi: "Meditations on Byronic Ruins (in English)"Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, ed. By Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo. Vol. 4. 59-80 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kasahara Yorimichi: "An Aesthetic Enquiry into the Origin of Digressions in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (in Japanese)"Takahashi Yasunari, ed., The Genealogy of Deviations (Tokyo : Kenkyusha-shuppan, 1999). 387-408

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Raizis, M. B., ed.: "Byron : A Poet for All Seasons"Messolonghi, Greece : Messolonghi Byron Society. 306 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 笠原 順路: "「Persy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias"--文法構造の断片化、そして《時》の勝利へ」"『英語青年』. 第147巻(印刷中). (2002)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Raizis,M.B.,(ed.): "Byron : A Poet for All Seasons"Messolonghi,GREECE : Messolonghi Byron Society. 306 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] KASAHARA Yorimichi: "Meditations on Byronic Ruins"東京大学大学院 総合文化研究科 超域文化科学専攻編 超域文化科学紀要. 第4号. 59-80 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] KASAHARA Yorimichi: "Meditations on the Acropolis"明星大学人文学部 紀要. 第36号(予定). (2000)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 高橋康也 編(共著): "『逸脱の系譜』"研究社出版. 610 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 笠原順路: "Meditations on Byronic Ruins" 超域文化科学紀要. 第4号. (1999)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report

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