| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
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| Research Abstract |
In 2005, in continuation of the work done in 2004, I gathered the research material A trip to Vladivostok, Russian Federation in August and a visit to the Rare Book Collection of Far Eastern State University, Far Eastern State Archive, the Library of the Research Society of the Amur Area, the Library of the Arseniev Museum, Vladivostok Public Library, led to a discovery of much hitherto-unknown material A useful exchange of ideas was pursued between the Researcher-in-Chief of the Research Division on the History of the Primorskii Area, Vladivostok Public Library.
In December I traveled to New York, USA, to conduct research in the New York Public Library and the Libraries of Columbia University, where I read and copied, mainly articles from the Russian-Jewish-American emigre newspapers and journals such as "Novoe russkoe slovo" and "Novyi zhurnal," concerning Ivan Elagin.
On the basis of the material thus collected, I launched on their analysis. I have found that the use of pennames of the Far Eastern Russian writers express their sense of multiple identities as authors in margin and that the lives of the Matveevs are now turning into an urban myth in the critical discourse, etc.
In October I read a paper, entitled "The Study of the Literature of the Matveevs" at the annual convention of the Japan Society of Russian Literature.
Part of the research result was published in the journal Sever (Vol 19, Dec 2004). The entire report was published as a booklet.
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