The Modernist Canon Revisited

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23720165
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Literature in English
Research Institution	Kyoto Women's University (2012) Kyoto Women's Junior College (2011)
Principal Investigator	HIROTA Sonoko 京都女子大学, 文学部, 准教授 (30368550)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2012
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords	英文学 / インターテクスチュアリティ / モダニズム / 英米文学 / 文学一般
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study is to examine the contemporary British novelists’ reworking of canonical literary works of Modernism, and to establish the importance of their achievements. My articles focus on Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005) and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty (2005).