| Project/Area Number |
20520173
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Japanese literature
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| Research Institution | Surugadai University |
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Principal Investigator |
YOSHINO Mizue Surugadai University, 現代文化学部, 教授 (00224121)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KAN Satoko お茶の水女子大学, 人間分化創成科学研究科, 教授 (70224871)
MATSUI Yuko 駿河台大学, 現代文化学部, 教授 (70265445)
MASUDA Kumiko 駿河台大学, 現代文化学部, 准教授 (80337617)
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| Research Collaborator |
SHIDOOKA Rie 大妻女子大学, 非常勤講師
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Keywords | 日記文学 / 国際研究者交流 / 書簡文学 / 比較文学 / 公的領域 / 日本文学 / 公的領域形成 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study looked at women's diaries, letters, and autobiographies in Heian and Meiji Japan, the 18th- and 19th-century-Britain and the United States. It explored the way how they help shape the public sphere, even as, or perhaps because, they use this 'private' literary form. As recent English criticism employs the term 'life-writing' and reconsiders the genre's multiple, including social and political, aspects, the study demonstrated that a number of women's 'life-writing' examined here ingeniously transform their 'private' life and experience into relevant public models, or use the genre as a kind of disguise to gain an access to wider contemporary debate. The research also suggested further possibilities of the exploration of this interplay of 'private' and 'public' in women's life-writing by examining a Japanese example in which the 'private' language of the
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