A Structuralist Study of the "Modenity" of Natyume Soseki;s Literatyure as Viewed by Moddle Class Readers in the Miji and Taisyo

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23520252
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese literature
Research Institution	Waseda University
Principal Investigator	ISHIHARA CHIAKI 早稲田大学, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (00159758)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
Budget Amount *help	¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Keywords	夏目漱石 / 新しさ / 読者 / 女学生小説 / 家庭小説 / 明治民法 / 女の謎 / 進化論 / 個人
Research Abstract	In this study I have demonstraed the difference between Soseki;s iterature and the domestic noveis and novels featuring schoogiris that readers were familiar with at the end of the nineteenth century,and which share some traits with his fiction. First, the lives of the famale protagonsts in Soseki;s literature are portrayed after they have graduated from singl-sex schools, in which they secure an independent identity for themselves in ther relaitionships with men by presenting themselves as "enigmas" in their romantic engagements and maririages. Second, Soseki was conscious of the Meiji Civel Code when he wrote about families, and he presented in these novels-wihich shoud proprely be regarded as domestic novels the modern Japanese family undre the paternalistic.