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Reconstructing Wilderness Ideology in American Literature

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K16791
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionMeiji University

Principal Investigator

Yamamoto Yohei  明治大学, 理工学部, 専任准教授 (40646824)

Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywordsアメリカ環境文学 / ウィルダネス / ソロー / キャザー / ジュエット / リージョナリズム / 環境文学 / ウィラ・キャザー / アメリカ文学 / エコクリティシズム / メルヴィル / マニフェスト・デスティニー / 環境人文学 / 市民的不服従 / 先住民 / 米文学 / アメリカン・ルネサンス
Outline of Final Research Achievements

I have studied the notion of wilderness which began to receive more attention after Roderick Nash’s_Wilderness and the American Mind_ in 1967, which called attention to a dual aspect of wilderness: “the mental criteria for wilderness are as important as the physical.” Influenced by Nash’s genealogical studies, several critics have discussed wilderness as a socially and historically constructed concept. As the result, not unlike the untamed wilderness American authors such as Thoreau, Melville, Dickinson, Jewett, and Cather so passionately narrates, the thickets and branches of his/her writings, too, must be ventured into and woven through by the reader. In this regard, one of my achievements in this study is to go beyond the oversimplified dichotomies of previous criticism, focusing on the details of their works in relation to the concerns of literary criticism and the environmental humanities.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

近年のエコクリティシズムの動向は,批評理論的には"trans-corporeality"や"multi-species"といった身体の越境性・浸食性・相互関連などが議論されるようになり,他方,気候変動が喫緊の社会的な課題になるに呼応してきた。本研究の蓄積は,これらの人文学の使命に応答しうるものである。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (17 results)

All 2019 2018 2017 2016

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (8 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 6 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (8 results)

  • [Journal Article] ソローの嗅覚ーー”Slavery in Massachusetts"とDissentの位相2017

    • Author(s)
      山本洋平
    • Journal Title

      ヘンリー・ソロー研究論集

      Volume: 43 Pages: 46-56

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Cather's Urban Imagination2019

    • Author(s)
      Yohei Yamamoto
    • Organizer
      17th International Willa Cather Seminar (Shenandoah University. Winchester, VA)
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Reading Willa Cather’s Southwestern Novels in the Age of Climate Change2019

    • Author(s)
      Yohei Yamamoto
    • Organizer
      54th WLA Conference 2019 (Estes Park, Colorado)
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Willa Cather’s Frontier Rhetoric2018

    • Author(s)
      Yohei Yamamoto
    • Organizer
      63rd annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] My Antonia and the Alternative Frontier Rhetoric2018

    • Author(s)
      Yohei YAMAMOTO
    • Organizer
      The 63rd annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “Climb right over the fence” --ウィラ・キャザーObscure Destiniesにおける家計2017

    • Author(s)
      山本洋平
    • Organizer
      日本アメリカ文学会東京支部
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Walden, Slavery, Work Ethics in Antebellum America2017

    • Author(s)
      Yohei YAMAMOTO
    • Organizer
      Thoreau From Across the Pond: International Symposium
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] アメリカン・ルネサンスにおける市民的不服従をめぐって―“Slavery in Massachusetts”を中心に―2016

    • Author(s)
      山本洋平
    • Organizer
      日本ソロー協会
    • Place of Presentation
      ノートルダム清心女子大学
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The Muse Speaks in Prose: The Anxiety of Influence in Thoreau’s Earlier Works2016

    • Author(s)
      山本洋平
    • Organizer
      The 13th Wenshan International Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      National Chengchi University, Taiwan
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] 揺れ動く〈保守〉2018

    • Author(s)
      山口和彦、中谷崇
    • Total Pages
      330
    • Publisher
      春風社
    • ISBN
      9784861106095
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 『環境人文学Ⅱ 他者としての自然』野田研一,山本洋平,森田系太郎編著2017

    • Author(s)
      山本洋平
    • Total Pages
      15
    • Publisher
      勉誠出版
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 『鳥と人間をめぐる思考:環境文学と人類学の対話』野田研一・奥野克巳編著2017

    • Author(s)
      山本洋平
    • Total Pages
      21
    • Publisher
      勉誠出版
    • ISBN
      9784585230496
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 『〈交感〉 自然・環境に呼応する心』野田研一編著2017

    • Author(s)
      山本洋平
    • Total Pages
      10
    • Publisher
      ミネルヴァ書房
    • ISBN
      9784623079933
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 〈交感〉 自然・環境に呼応する心2017

    • Author(s)
      山本洋平(共著)
    • Total Pages
      460
    • Publisher
      ミネルヴァ書房
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 環境人文学I 文化のなかの自然2017

    • Author(s)
      山本洋平(編著)
    • Total Pages
      352
    • Publisher
      勉誠出版
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 環境人文学II 他者としての自然2017

    • Author(s)
      山本洋平(編著)
    • Total Pages
      352
    • Publisher
      勉誠出版
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 鳥と人間をめぐる思考ー環境文学と人類学の対話2016

    • Author(s)
      山本洋平(共著)
    • Total Pages
      394
    • Publisher
      勉誠出版
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2023-12-25  

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