| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
As a result of this study on the history of the book clubs in the United States, a book and a paper were published. (1)The book, The Portraits of Holden Caulfield (Shinjuku-Shobo, 2014), treats of two well-known book clubs in America, that is, "the Book-of-the-Month Club," a mail-order book sales club, and "Oprah's Book Club," a book discussion TV program. It deals with the prosperity and decline of those two book clubs, and also discusses the merits and demerits of“the book-club boom”in 20th century America. (2)A paper,“Oprah Winfrey and Her Disciples,”describes in detail how one TV personality, Oprah Winfrey, created the‘book-club boom’in America at the turn of the century.
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