2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Expressions of the historical rupture in the French modern literature-around Chateaubriand

Research Project

Project/Area Number	16520134
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	ヨーロッパ語系文学
Research Institution	Sophia university (2006) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2004-2005)
Principal Investigator	MIZUBAYASHI Akira Sophia university, French, Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (80183630)
Project Period (FY)	2004 – 2006
Keywords	Voltaire / Rousseau / Beaumarchais / Candide / The Marriage of Figaro / Enlightenment / autonomy / republic
Research Abstract	This research initially devoted to the representation of the historical ruptures in French literature of modern time was to be organized around Chateaubriand. But I quickly realized that certain writers of the enlightenment were impossible to circumvent to tackle this question of the representation of the moments when History knows a fracture, a tear, a swing. I was thus brought to work on Candide of Voltaire as well as on Nozze di Figaro of Mozart/Da Ponte compared with the masterpiece of Beaumarchais. I make a point of specifying that these two studies, in which textual analyses and historical and sociological considerations coexist, both attracted the attention of an editor eager to publish them. In short, this research enabled me to reconsider the still invaluable heritage of the French enlightenment.

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