2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
British Culture and European Culture in the Interwar Period-from the Viewpoint of History of Sociat Thought
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10610461
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
英語・英米文学
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Foregn Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
SUZUKI Akira Department of Foreign Studies, Tokyo University of Foregn Studies, Associate Professor, 外国語学部, 助教授 (80154516)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2000
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| Keywords | memory / culture / tradition / modernism |
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| Research Abstract |
The first World War had a contradictory effect : the shattering of confidence in all the traditions that had gone before bought the hope of starting everything afresh. But all men and women were uncertain about what was truly new.
At the same time, since Proust's enormous novel, A la Recherche du Temps perdu, the problem of memory, or how to reconstruct a solid past became a central theme for literature.
In short, in all cultural categories the post-war requirements were paradoxical : when one dared to cast away the debris of old western culture, she or he must find the fact that there were no resources left except traditional values. This movement is commonly known as the avantgarde or modernism, which Is commonly defined as a reaction against the conventions of liberal western civilization.
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