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Radio Dramas by the BBC Third Programme in Postwar Britain

Research Project

Project/Area Number 24520290
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionDoshisha University (2014-2015)
Hiroshima University (2012-2013)

Principal Investigator

Kawashima Takeshi  同志社大学, 文学部, 教授 (60409729)

Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
KeywordsBBC / ラジオ / ドラマ / 周縁 / 大衆 / 戦争 / 国際情報交換 / 海外発表 / 演劇 / イギリス / 大衆文化
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The outcomes of this research are summarized into three points. First, exploring radio dramas set in the border countries such as Ireland or Wales, I found that they offer images which are not fit in with newly-founded Englishness. Rather, their localities provide a critique of the cultural centralization exemplified by the Arts Council. Secondly, my research examined that radio dramas were used by the BBC for exploring language with which to talk to mass. In contrast to Modernist elitism that despised the mass, the BBC radio's literary programmes contributed to broadening the possibility of literature. Thirdly, it is found that the BBC produced a number of war radio dramas. World War I famously produced many war poets, whereas there are less poems produced by World War II. The BBC's radio dramas on war made up for poetic depletion, and demonstrated more complicated feelings and emotions.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • 2012 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (11 results)

All 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (4 results) Book (4 results)

  • [Journal Article] 戦争を知らない詩人たちの戦争のうた――ディラン・トマスのラジオ2015

    • Author(s)
      川島健
    • Journal Title

      年報カルチュラル・スタディーズ

      Volume: 3 Pages: 77-95

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 戦争を知らない詩人の戦争のうた――Dylan Thomasとラジオ2015

    • Author(s)
      川島健
    • Journal Title

      年報カルチュラル・スタディーズ

      Volume: 3

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Harold Pinter and the Collapse of the Cold War Structure2013

    • Author(s)
      Takeshi Kawashima
    • Journal Title

      Expanding the Frontiers of Comparative Literature:  Toward an Age of Tolerance

      Volume: 2 Pages: 178-187

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Poetic Representations of Statues in Dublin: “Images of Irish Culture”2014

    • Author(s)
      Takeshi Kawashima
    • Organizer
      International Association for the Study of Irish Literature Japan
    • Place of Presentation
      早稲田大学
    • Year and Date
      2014-10-11
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Floating England: Voices in the Air in the BBC Third Programme2014

    • Author(s)
      Takeshi Kawashima
    • Organizer
      International Federation for Theatre Research
    • Place of Presentation
      Warick University, England
    • Year and Date
      2014-07-30
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] A Voice from Peripheries: Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood and Postwar England2013

    • Author(s)
      Takeshi Kawashima
    • Organizer
      20th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
    • Place of Presentation
      Paris
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Voices from the Margin: Samuel Beckett's and Dylan Thomas's Radio Dramas for the BBC Third Programme2012

    • Author(s)
      Takeshi Kawashima
    • Organizer
      日本サミュエル・ベケット研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      東京大学駒場キャンパス
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 『幻想と怪奇の英文学2』2016

    • Author(s)
      川島健
    • Publisher
      春風社
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] ベケットのアイルランド2014

    • Author(s)
      川島健
    • Total Pages
      260
    • Publisher
      水声社
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 『ベケットを見る8つの方法――批評のボーダレス』2013

    • Author(s)
      岡室美奈子・川島健
    • Total Pages
      385
    • Publisher
      水声社
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 『ベケットのアイルランド』2013

    • Author(s)
      川島健
    • Total Pages
      400
    • Publisher
      彩流社
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report

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Published: 2013-05-31   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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