Reconsidering Oral Taradition and Its Impact on American Renaissance Writers
Project/Area Number |
24652059
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Literature in English
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Research Institution | Kagoshima University |
Principal Investigator |
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Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
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: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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Keywords | アメリカ文学 / アメリカン・ルネサンス / 口述文化 / メルヴィル / ホーソーン / 言語理論 / トールテール |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In "Deconstructing Travel Writing: Oral Tradition in Typee," I elucidated how Melville reconfigured narrative structures of Typee based on tall tale tradition. Especially, its dialogic pattern shows exhilaration, referential illusion, vocal sound expression, etc. In "Vocal Sounds and Linguistic Signification in Herman Melville’s Novels," I described the course of changes in Melville's view of language and vocal sounds which was influenced by Nathaniel Hawthorne and, probably, through him, by Charles Kraitsir's Natural Language theory.
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