| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,450,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The investigator collected most of KUNO's works by buying his books and copying the collection of the Museum of Modern Japanese Literature. And he analysed the contents of his works, especially explicited their forms of text. He made the total catalogue of KUNO's works and chronological list.
As based on this research, the investigator tried to make clear KUNO's style and idea of literature. He read the paper on this theme at the conferences for two times in autumn and winter of 2007. One was the 49th Conference on History of Style, the other was the Meeting of Conference on Japanese Comparative Literature, Tohoku Branch. He published the papers in bulletin of his university and made a report of 100 pages. He distributed these booklets among the scholars.
The investigator explicated the literary style of KUNO as the modernist. KUNO's literary theory is concerned with futurism, constructivism, and formalism. He argued those ideas with analyzing KUNO's essays on literary theory. And KUNO's works include fragmental feature, deviation of story, symbolization of body, parody of socio-economics, or audio-visual. He maintained these characteristics by investigating KUNO's various works with the rhetorical or semiological method.
KUNO's literary idea was strongly influenced by C. H. Douglas, English economist. The investigator inquired the influence. He explicited their meeting, the works of Douglas, the modernity of Douglas's economy, theory of Douglas, and evaluation of its economy. And he also researched the influence from Douglas to KUNO by explicating KUNO's relationship with Marxism, introduction to the literary theory, connection between money and art, and so-called New Socialist (Shin-shakai-ha) movement.
With the result of these research, the investigator could approach closely the total image of KUNO, who had been thought as difficult and inaccessible author. From now on, the study of KUNO's literature will develop on the basis of this research.
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