2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Cultural Studies of Jopseph von Eichendorff
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16520139
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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 | Niigata University |
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Principal Investigator |
KUWAHARA Satoshi Niigata University, Institute of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, Professor, 人文社会・教育科学系, 教授 (10168346)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2006
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| Keywords | Joseph von Eichendorff / cultural studies / political thoughts / mythical figures / Lore Lay / utopia / double-world structure |
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| Research Abstract |
This research is an attempt to study the poetical works and the political thoughts as well of Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857), "the most romantic poet" of the German Romaniticism from the point of cultural studies.
In the first place, I tried to make clear which meaning his political thoughts which have been regarded as reactionary and thus have not deserved proper attention has in order to understand his poetical works. I pointed out that there is a close relationship between them regarding his concept of 'freedom' and 'individuality'.
Then, I analized tthe hree types of the mythical women in his three novels to come to the conclusion that they range from a exotic representation to a mithcal figure as Lore Lay which seems to problematize the european way of rational thinking from Socrates.
At last, I indicated that there is a double-world structure in his works. His expressions from description to vocabulary have always two meanings: one depicts the world in which figures live while it is related to another world at the same time which can be called a utopia.
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