2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study on Representations concerning the Crowd of the Asia-Pacific Basin in Modern British and American Literature
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13610583
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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 | Osaka Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
ARAI Hidenaga Osaka Women's University, Humanities, Associate Professor, 人文社会学部, 助教授 (00212598)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2004
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| Keywords | D.H.Lawrence / Kangaroo / St.Mawr / The Plumed Serpent / Crowd / Asia / Pacific / nativist modernism |
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| Research Abstract |
1. The representations of the crowd in Kangaroo (1923) and St.Mawr (1925) by D.H.Lawrence (1885-1930), a British modernist writer, were compared. As a result, it has turned out that the potential of the crowd and revenge disappears in St.Mawr.
2. By reference to what Walter Benn Michaels terms "nativist modernism," the representation of Asia in St.Mawr was analyzed in terms of its meaning and function. It has become clear that "the core of Asia" is meant to be "Tartary" and that St.Mawr expresses the same sense of crisis over the Yellow Peril as The Rising Tide of Color against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard (1883-1950), superimposing the America fear on Europe. But a close examination of the features of evil has revealed that evil from "the core of Asia" becomes, as it were, a floating signifier without a clear referent within the text.
3. By reference to some works of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, St.Mawr and The Plumed Serpent (1926) were examined in terms of Nazism and imperialism. As a result, it has been proved that St.Mawr is more involved with nativism than Michaels allows and that The Plumed Serpent is anti-imperialistic as well as Nazistic.
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