| Project/Area Number |
19K00416
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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| Keywords | English literature / British authors / Eastern religion / Iris Murdoch / Lawrence Durrell / Ted Hughes / British literature / intertextuality / myth / shamanism / Shintoism / Buddhism |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
I am researching the influence of Eastern religion on British literature, focusing on Iris Murdoch, Lawrence Durrell and Ted Hughes. Exploring this influence will lead both to a richer understanding of their work, and to an understanding of the complex dialectic between Eastern and Western thought.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In 2023, I made the following four presentations.1) ‘Iris Murdoch and Yukio Mishima'at the 3rd International Colloquiumin Contemporary Philosophy and Culture of the Society for Philosophy as Global Conversation:‘Cultural Encounters: Impacts and Inspirations', at Capacete International Art Residency, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 8th-10th, 2023. 2) ‘Hidden Buddhism in Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet'.Invited talk at the American University of Cairo, September 20th, 2023. 3) ‘Chinese History of Colden Water: Ted Hughes and Buddhist Texts’, at ICAS 2023- 11th International Conference on Asian Studies:‘Asian Dynamism- Peace, Security and Growth" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 23rd-24th, 2023-2024. 4) ‘“Mishima’s Dog Blocking the waterfall”: Iris Murdoch and Yukio Mishima’s The Sea of Fertility’ at the 23rd Iris Murdoch Society of Japan conference, at Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo, November 4th, 2023.
And I also published a report below.
1) Report on the 22nd Conference of the Iris Murdoch Society of Japan,
26 November 2022 in The Iris Murdoch Review No 14 2023, pp. 110-111.
With Chiho Omichi.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The work is now progressing more smoothly after delays caused by Covid. I have completed the conference presentations and published the papers that I intended and am involved in an editing project closely related to the kakenhi project. I am also on the thesis committee for a PhD related to the topic. However, I will need more time if I am to publish a book related to the work.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In 2024, I will attend the Fourth Global Conversations conference in Nagano, at Nagano University (May 31st - June 3rd) where I will give a paper on the relationship between nature and spirituality in the work of Ted Hughes with reference to Japanese themes. In July, I will attend the 'Dark Durrell' International Lawrence Durrell Society conference in Athens at the Kapodistrian University of Athens, where I will give a paper on 'dark spirituality' in Durrell with relation to Eastern themes.In September this year, I will give a presentation at the International Iris Murdoch Society at Chichester University on intertextuality in The Book and the Brotherhood, including reference to Japanese themes. I also intend to give a paper on Iris Murdoch at the forthcoming Iris Murdoch Society of Japan in meeting in Uji or Kyoto this November (topic and location to be confirmed). I will revise these papers for publication.I will be continuing to work on editing the volume Iris Murdoch and the East with my co-editor Rob Hardy and intend to approach Palgrave
Macmillan with a proposal for a book on Iris Murdoch.
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