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Aesthetic Perspectives of Travel-Essays in German Speaking Literature

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K00501
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02040:European literature-related
Research InstitutionTokyo Metropolitan University

Principal Investigator

Schloendorff Leopold  東京都立大学, 人文科学研究科, 准教授 (20773188)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 山本 浩司  早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 教授 (80267442)
Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywords紀行文学 / オートフィクション / ハントケ / ホッペ / クラハト / ザイラー / ポストコロニアリズム / ユーゴ紛争 / Handke* / Travel / Essay / Narratology / Crisis / War / Kracht / Brinkmann / Essayism / Spatial Turn / Globalization / Yugoslavia / Handke / Gender / Subjectivity / Topography / Heterotopia / エッセイ / ドイツ文学 / 世界文学
Outline of Research at the Start

グローバル化と消費文化の浸透によって旅の形式が変質していく現代において、「紀行エッセイ」がいかなる美的射程を持ちうるかを精査することを目的に月例研究集会を重ね、歴史的に見て英仏語圏のコロニアリズムの当事者性とは一線を画してきた現代ドイツ語圏作家たちによる非ヨーロッパ圏紀行文を分析していく。ムージルやベンヤミンなど古典的なエッセイ論とドイツ戦後文学の旅行記などを比較対象に引きながら、現代の紀行エッセイの新奇性を明確にしていく。その際、国際的な研究ネットワークの構築にも力を入れ、完成年度には東京で国際シンポジウムを開催した上で、日独両国で比較文化論集を出版し研究成果を社会に還元する。

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our project has identified four key aspects in travel literature of the 20th and 21st century: (1) The traveler challenges unquestioned certainties and produces oppositional knowledge (e.g. Peter Handke's journeys into the civil war zone of former Yugoslavia). (2) Contemporary texts tend to cross the borders of genre (travelogue, essay, reportage, etc.) or question the traditional distinction between factual report and (auto)fiction (e.g. Felicitas Hoppe's fictitious journey to America, ironically titled as "Prawda"/truth). (3) Writers use mass media and new media to publish their travel stories, oftentimes combined with strong media criticism (e.g. Peter Handke first published his critical stance on western war coverage in the daily newspapers Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Liberation). (4) Within the postcolonial discourse authors refer to the highly problematic history of travel and exploration (e.g. J.M. Coetzee's "Foe" and Lutz Seiler's "Kruso" in relation to the genre of Robinsonade).

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

ハントケのユーゴ紛争に対する親セルビア的姿勢について政治的観点からの議論はされてきたものの、テキストの文学研究的な分析はまだ足りていなかった。彼のユーゴ紀行が現地調査を積み重ねた上で、テーマに迂回的な接近をする文学的な試みであることを明らかにした本研究は研究史の穴を埋めるのに貢献した。
ヴァーチャルな交流が可能になったものの、人間的な交流と現地での調査が蔑ろにされたポストコロナ時代にあって、デジタル時代において情報の信頼性をどう担保するかは喫緊の社会的課題である。ソーシャルメディアや既存のマスメディアにおける意見の画一化を前に自由に出版できる作家がメディアの外側に立つことの重要性を明らかにした。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (15 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019

All Journal Article (9 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 2 results) Book (1 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] "Vorgaukelungen aus der Maimorgenluft". Handkes "Nachschriften" auf Jugoslawien und den Krieg im Spannungsfeld von Fiktionalitaet und Faktizitaet.2023

    • Author(s)
      Leopold Schloendorff
    • Journal Title

      Jimbun-Gakuho

      Volume: 519-14 Pages: 1-24

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] "Der Vorfahr ist von der Bank aufgestanden und hat mich allein da hocken lassen.“ Handkes erzaehlerisches Drama Immer noch Sturm als Buehne familienbiografischer Identitaetsfindung.2023

    • Author(s)
      Leopold Schloendorff
    • Journal Title

      Oostoria bungaku, Zeitschrift der Japanisch-oesterreichischen Literaturgesellschaft

      Volume: 39 Pages: 12-21

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Ottilie muesse entfernt werden“. Mimetisches Begehren und Gewalt in Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften.2022

    • Author(s)
      Leopold Schloendorff
    • Journal Title

      Waseda-Blaetter 29

      Volume: 1 Pages: 64-85

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] “Der Rhythmus der Steinigung“. Rene Girards mimetische Theorie in Geschichte, Mythos und Literatur.2022

    • Author(s)
      Leopold Schloendorff
    • Journal Title

      Jimbun-Gakuho 518-14

      Volume: 1 Pages: 15-29

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] "Auf der Suche nach einem Zuhoerer“. Zur Triangularitaet des Begehrens in Peter Handkes Don Juan-Erzae2021

    • Author(s)
      Leopold Schloendorff
    • Journal Title

      Jinbun-Gakuho

      Volume: 517-14 Pages: 1-12

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Handkes Japan oder das Lob des Daemmerlichts2020

    • Author(s)
      Leopold Schloendorff
    • Journal Title

      Austrian Studies: Literaturen und Kulturen. Eine Einfuehrung.

      Volume: 1 Pages: 157-164

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Was ist der Reim auf Schwelle? Uberlegungen zu Peter Handkes Schwellenkunde in Der Chinese des Schmerzes.2020

    • Author(s)
      Leopold Schloendorff
    • Journal Title

      Einheit in der Vielfalt? Germanistik zwischen Divergenz und Konvergenz

      Volume: 1 Pages: 227-233

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Der Till Eulenspiegel des Clemens J. Setz. Oder das Ende der mimetischen Gewalt im Suendenbockritual2020

    • Author(s)
      Leopold Schloendorff
    • Journal Title

      Jimbun-Gakuho

      Volume: 516-14 Pages: 53-63

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Vorwort: Welt/Literatur-Formationen und Funktionen der Literatur in Prozessen der Globalisierung2019

    • Author(s)
      Leopold Schloendorff
    • Journal Title

      Zaesuren; Welt/Literatur

      Volume: 1 Pages: 10-13

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Handkes Jugoslawien-Durchquerungen: Umwege und Ausschweifungen auf der Suche nach Wahrheit.2022

    • Author(s)
      Leopold Schloendorff
    • Organizer
      Der Blick des Reisenden. Paradigmen des Reisens in der deutschen Literatur nach 1945.
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Mimetische Gewalt in Clemens J. Setz‘ Till Eulenspiegel-Adaption.2022

    • Author(s)
      Leopold Schloendorff
    • Organizer
      Online-Workshop Literatur des Posthumanismus mit Clemens J. Setz
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Das Fremde im Eigenen. Die Grenzgaenge des Peter Handke. Eine Schwellengeschichte2019

    • Author(s)
      Leopold Schloendorff
    • Organizer
      Asiatischen Germanistentagung
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Ueber Narren und Freiheit. Clemens J. Setz erzaehlt Till Eulenspiegel.2019

    • Author(s)
      Leopold Schloendorff
    • Organizer
      Literatur des Posthumanismus
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] Zaesuren; Welt/Literatur.2019

    • Author(s)
      Teiko Nakamaru, Leopold Schloendorff, Stefan Buchenberger, Sho Saito
    • Total Pages
      274
    • Publisher
      Iudicium
    • ISBN
      9783862053322
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Workshop “Der Blick des Reisenden. Paradigmen des Reisens in der deutschen Literatur nach 1945.“2022

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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