| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project explores the hitherto unattended aspect of the interpenetration of materiality and spirituality in American modernist novels. Revisiting the works of Faulkner and Fitzgerald, it articulates the reason why modernist writers repeatedly showed qualms about the inefficacy of disembodied spirituality, and turned instead to the materiality of objects as embodying an alternative spirituality. By focusing on the way each novelist transforms a particular object into something spiritual by exposing its thingness, I suggest that unruly materiality that they recurrently describe can resonate with the alterity of the human subject.
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