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Loss and Insurance in American Literature

Research Project

Project/Area Number 22720104
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionUniversity of Miyazaki

Principal Investigator

SHIMOJO Keiko  宮崎大学, 教育文化学部, 准教授 (30510713)

Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) SCOTT Pugh  福岡女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (60244795)
TATSUMI Taka Yuki  慶応義塾大学, 文学部, 教授 (30155098)
AKIMOTO Takafumi  甲南大学, 文学部, 教授 (70330404)
SAKAI Takashi  熊本県立大学, 文学部, 准教授 (90438317)
Research Collaborator CHRISTOPHER Schreiner  グアム大学, 人文科学部, 教授
Project Period (FY) 2010 – 2012
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Keywords思想史 / 英米文学 / 社会史 / アメリカ文学 / 経済思想 / 金融史 / 文芸誌史 / 思想由
Research Abstract

The outcome of this three-year research project on “Loss and Insurance inAmerican Literature” has been very successful and academically beneficial. During the first research tripto the United States, I found and purchased several rare historical documents of the history of theinsurance industry in America since the Colonial period. My analysis of those documents and the fieldresearch in the meccas of the insurance business since the Age of Great Discovery-such asPhiladelphia, London, and Florence-reinforced my thesis that the American sensibility in Americaninsurance business has acquired transoceanic aspects and they are pervasively illustrated in manymonumental works of American literature, which describe many layers of loss and lapse. My furtherstudy also made clear that these transoceanic aspects have been described not only as “transatlantic,”that is between Europe and the Americas, but also as resulting from “transpacific” imaginations-in thesixteenth century , Europeans happened … More to reach the Americas entirely by chance while they weresupposed to be heading for Asia. The subsequent discourses of “Asia/Utopia” in the Age of GreatDiscovery have not been fully discussed in American studies, but they are fully present in Americanliterature. My research findings came to fruition in some parts of my PhD dissertation (2011), twopeer-reviewed articles (2011, 2012), and three oral presentations at literary conferences (2010, 2011,2012). In addition, I invited renowned literature professors to two public lectures, which I hosted tointroduce the topic of my current research in an open and dialogical way beyond the confines ofacademia (2010, 2011). Furthermore, this three-year-long research also allowed me to come up with a new research hypothesis,that the reason descriptions of business contracts often carry a theological air in American literaturemight be that the idea of such contracts has been blended, together with other social and religious contracts such as the “Mayflower Pact” and the “Contract of Grace” of the Covenant, into the very coreof founding ideas of the United States. Less

Report

(4 results)
  • 2012 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2011 Annual Research Report
  • 2010 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (16 results)

All 2012 2011 2010 Other

All Journal Article (7 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 5 results) Presentation (6 results) Remarks (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] パーチメント・スキン-『八月の光』物語空間としてのジョーの肌2012

    • Author(s)
      下條恵子
    • Journal Title

      フォークナー

      Volume: 第14号 Pages: 54-65

    • Related Report
      2012 Final Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] パーチメント・スキン―『八月の光』物語空間としてのジョーの肌2012

    • Author(s)
      下條恵子
    • Journal Title

      『フォークナー』

      Volume: 14 Pages: 54-65

    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] パーチメント・スキンー『八月の光』物語空間としてのジョーの肌2012

    • Author(s)
      下條恵子
    • Journal Title

      フォークナー

      Volume: 14(近刊) Pages: 54-65

    • Related Report
      2011 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Till Death Them DoPart: Death and Friendship in PaulAuster ' s The Locked Room2011

    • Author(s)
      Keiko SHIMOJO
    • Journal Title

      Studies inEnglish Literature (日本英文学会誌)

      Volume: 第52号 Pages: 35-51

    • Related Report
      2012 Final Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Till Death Them Do Part : Death and Friendship in Paul Auster's The Locked Room2011

    • Author(s)
      下條恵子(SHIMOJO Keiko)
    • Journal Title

      Studies in English Literature(日本英文学会誌)

      Volume: 第52号 Pages: 35-51

    • Related Report
      2010 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Writing in aShipwreck: Family , Identity , andMemory in Paul Auster ' s TheInvention of Solitude2010

    • Author(s)
      Keiko SHIMOJO
    • Journal Title

      『教育文化学部紀要』 (宮崎大学教育文化学部紀要 人文科学)

      Volume: 第23号 Pages: 27-36

    • Related Report
      2012 Final Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Writing in a Shipwreck : Family, Identity, and Memory in Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude2010

    • Author(s)
      下條恵子(Keiko SHIMOJO)
    • Journal Title

      教育文化学部紀要(宮崎大学教育文化学部紀要人文科学)

      Volume: 第23号 Pages: 27-36

    • NAID

      110008620791

    • Related Report
      2010 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] ポーとオースター:オースター作品のジャンルにおけるポーとモダニズムの関係」 (シンポジウム 「ポーとモダニズム」 における口頭発表)2012

    • Author(s)
      下條恵子
    • Organizer
      ポー学会第5回年次大会
    • Place of Presentation
      京都府立大学
    • Year and Date
      2012-09-16
    • Related Report
      2012 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] 「パーチメント・スキン -- ジョー・クリスマスの肌を物語のページとして読む」 (シンポジウム 「フォークナーと身体表象」 における口頭発表)2011

    • Author(s)
      下條恵子
    • Organizer
      日本ウィリアム ・ フォークナー協会第14回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      関西学院大学
    • Year and Date
      2011-10-07
    • Related Report
      2012 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] パーチメント・スキンージョー・クリスマスの肌を物語のページとして読む2011

    • Author(s)
      下條恵子
    • Organizer
      日本ウィリアム・フォークナー協会
    • Place of Presentation
      関西学院大学(招待講演)
    • Year and Date
      2011-10-07
    • Related Report
      2011 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 「On the Way toUtopia-Auster 作品におけるユートピアの伝統」 (シンポジウム 「アメリカ文学.-アメリカ小説の伝統とアメリカについてのヴィジョン」における口頭発表)2010

    • Author(s)
      下條恵子
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会九州支部第63回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      九州大学
    • Year and Date
      2010-10-30
    • Related Report
      2012 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] On the Way to Utopia-fluster作品におけるユートピアの伝統(シンポジウム「アメリカ文学.-アメリカ小説の伝統とアメリカについてのヴィジョン」)2010

    • Author(s)
      下條恵子
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会九州支部第63回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      九州大学箱崎キャンパス
    • Year and Date
      2010-10-30
    • Related Report
      2010 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] ポーとオースター:オースター作品のジャンルにおけるポーとモダニズムの関係

    • Author(s)
      下條恵子
    • Organizer
      ポー学会
    • Place of Presentation
      京都府立大学
    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 公開講座 (企画運営・通訳:下條恵子)講師:S.ピュー教授(福岡女子大学)題目:Getting Beyond Trauma: HarukiMirakami's After the Quake(トラウマをこえて-村上春樹『神の子どもたちはみな踊る』を読む)2011 年 7 月 1 日 宮崎大学

    • Related Report
      2012 Final Research Report
  • [Remarks] 博士学位請求論文"Literature after the Fact: History , Identity ,and Community in Paul Auster ' sPost-disaster Narratives" pp.1-139 福岡女子大学大学院 文学研究科英文学専攻、2011 年 3 月 23 日、 博士 (文学) 文博第5号

    • Related Report
      2012 Final Research Report
  • [Remarks] 公開講座 (企画運営:下條恵子)講師:巽孝之教授(慶應義塾大学)題目:アメリカ南部の惑星思考-モンロー・ドクトリンと文学研究2010 年 10 月 29 日 宮崎大学

    • Related Report
      2012 Final Research Report

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