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 |
Section | 一般 |
Review Section |
Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
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Research Institution | Nagoya University |
Principal Investigator |
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Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
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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 | Iris Murdoch / Ted Hughes / Lawrence Durrell / British literature / Eastern religion / intertextuality / myth / shamanism / Shintoism / Buddhism |
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 |
During this year, 1) I gave a paper entitled‘Durrell's Hidden Buddhist heterotopias’at the“Mysticisms, Heresies, and Heterotopias in the Works of Lawrence Durrell”: On Miracle Ground XXI, the bi-annual conference of the International Lawrence Durrell Society, originally scheduled for Toulouse, France in 2020, held on-line on June 9th-11th, 2022. 2) During a research trip to the UK in September 2022, I carried out research on Ted Hughes in the British Library, London and attended the 9th International Ted Hughes Society Conference,‘Conversation with the World’at the University of Huddersfield from the 7th-9th September. 3) On the 20th October 2022, I gave a paper on Lawrence Durrell and Buddhism entitled“Mount Vulture and the Road to Angkor Wat”at the ICAS 10th International Conference on Asian Studies conference in Indonesia, held at the Hotel and Residences Riverview, Kuta, Bali from 20th-21st October, 2022. 4) I chaired a session given by Maria Peacock at the 22nd on“The Kafka Factor in Iris Murdoch’s Fiction”at the online Iris Murdoch Society of Japan, 6th November 2022.
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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
Since August in 2022, I have been able to travel abroad to conduct research as the Covid-19 travel restrictions were lifted. I have also continued work on the research topic by writing book chapters and attending online conferences.
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Strategy for Future Research Activity |
1) I have begun work on preparing a volume, co-edited with Dr Rob Hardy, entitled Iris Murdoch and the East in the Palgrave Macmillan series of monographs on Iris Murdoch (series editors Dr Frances White and Dr Miles Leeson of Chichester University). This is closely related to my kakenhi topic and the planned publication date is June 2024. 2) I have also started work as co-organiser of an upcoming conference with Professor Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Dr Rob Hardy and Dr Miles Leeson, which is linked to the above publication, and also entitled Iris Murdoch and the East, and which will take place at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus in September 2023. 3) I have also continued my work as contributing editor of Global Conversations Journal.
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