Studies on the reciprocal influences of the acts of reading and writing in American Literature from the 19th Century to the 21st Century

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02369
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: YOSHIDA Kyoko 立命館大学, 文学部, 教授 (90338244)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 中西 佳世子 京都産業大学, 文化学部, 准教授 (10524514) ; 島貫 香代子 関西学院大学, 商学部, 助教 (30724893) ; 竹井 智子 京都工芸繊維大学, 基盤科学系, 准教授 (50340899) ; 高野 泰志 九州大学, 人文科学研究院, 准教授 (50347192) ; 伊藤 聡子 南山大学短期大学部, 英語科, 講師 (50411179)
• Research Collaborator: SUGIMORI Masami
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: アメリカ文学 / アメリカ小説 / 精読 / 間テクスト性 / 読解教育 / 翻訳 / 創作 / 文学理論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research project, the research group approached the question of close reading--how it functions, what roles it plays in the American Literary Fictions from the 19th century to the 21st century, its literary history, and its pedagogy. The research group focused on actual literary texts, literary theories, reading skills pedagogy and creative writing pedagogy. Based on the premise that one can read literary text closely thanks to the intertextual network of mutual references and subtle differentiations, the research group defined two types of texts: aesthetic text and political text. The former strategically highlights its potentials for close-reading by differencing itself from and/or relying on other texts; the latter aims to bring some sort of impact to the world outside the text. The research group has tentatively concluded that the two types of texts are not mutually exclusive--all texts have some degrees of both characteristics.

Free Research Field

アメリカ文学