2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Numerological Researches in the Poetics of Space in Early Modern English Literature
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15520165
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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 |
ヨーロッパ語系文学
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKIKAWA Mutsumu Nagoya University, Graduate School of Letters, Professor, 文学研究科, 教授 (90179573)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Keywords | numerology / poetics of space / early modern England / rhetoric / number symbolism / Shakespeare / court masque / linear perspective |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research is to investigate the poetics of space in early modern English literature from the numerological perspective.
1. The elucidation of the process in which the early modern England's cultural noise represented by Mercutio's Queen Mab speech deconstructs both the plot and the action of Romeo and Juliet measured in the "careful ratios of those Italian paintings whose composition was subjected to simple geometric solutions".
2. The analysis of the numerical mystique in Romeo and Juliet, especially focusing upon the tragical facet featured by the gap between the heroine's age 13 and the play's ideal number 14.
3. The explication of the process in which 'the cult of ellipse' expelled by the Renaissance idea of the linear perspective is revived and revitalized in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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