Beyond Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Everyday Reading Practices in England

• Project/Area Number: 16K02484
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: Ikawa Chitose 一橋大学, 大学院社会学研究科, 教授 (20401672)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: 英文学 / 徴候的読み / 表層的読み / 読書会 / 解釈共同体 / ミドルブラウ / 共感 / 読書グループ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project has critically reexamined the psychoanalytical/Marxist method which has been widely followed in studies of English literature. This method called "hermeneutics of suspicion" is based on the premise that the literary text represses its true meaning awaiting for the interpreter-scholar to diagnose and rewrite what remains unrealized in its surface. This research has successfully integrated the theoretical approach with the empirical research on the everyday reading practices of the general reader in England.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の意義は、「素養ある読者」という理論的構築物を前提とした従来の「読者反応論」とは異なり、これまで学術調査の対象とされてこなかったNPOなどの協力を得ながら、読書会や文学フェスティバルへの参加、読み物雑誌や書評サイトなどの購読や閲覧とそれらへの投稿、さらに読み聞かせボランティアや創作コースへの参加までを広義の読書経験と捉えて、一般読者にとっての読むことの意味を多面的に捉えた点にある。

Research Products

• [Presentation] Who and Where are the "Real Readers"? Everyday Reading Practices in English Midlands and Northwest (2018)
  • Author(s): Chitose Ikawa
  • Organizer: SHARP (Society for the History and Authorship, Reading and Publishing)
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 文学的経験と多元的呑気主義 (2017)
  • Author(s): 井川ちとせ
  • Organizer: 日本ロレンス協会
  • Invited
• [Presentation] “And He Wanted My Advice”: Arnold Bennett and T. S. Eliot (2016)
  • Author(s): Chitose Ikawa
  • Organizer: Arnold Bennett Society
  • Place of Presentation: North Staffordshire Conference Centre (Stoke-on-Trent, UK)
  • Year and Date: 2016-06-04
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Book] 英国ミドルブラウ文化研究の挑戦 (2018)
  • Author(s): 中央大学人文科学研究所編、井川ちとせ、武藤浩史、近藤直樹、福西由実子、見市雅俊、小川公代、長島佐恵子、木下誠、加藤めぐみ、松本朗、前協子、渡辺愛子、秦邦生
  • Total Pages: 430
  • Publisher: 中央大学出版部
  • ISBN: 9784805753521
• [Book] 個人的なことは政治的なこと－ジェンダーとアイデンティティの力学 (2017)
  • Author(s): 井川ちとせ・中山徹編、藤野寛、鵜飼哲、南裕子、井上間従文、大河内泰樹、中山徹、井川ちとせ、早坂静、越智博美、町田みどり、金井嘉彦、中野知律、小泉順也
  • Total Pages: 342
  • Publisher: 彩流社