Decipherment of the Marginalia of the Paper Materials in the Hemingway museum

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K13207
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Meijo University
• Principal Investigator: Yanagisawa Hideo 名城大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (40647989)
• Research Collaborator: Spanier Sandra Penn State University, Prof. ; Garit Isbel Ferreiro Hemingway museum, Senior Curator ; Bles Idalberto Batista Hemingway museum, Librarian ; Gárciga Sheila Álvarez Hemingway museum, Staff ; Cantero Kenia Máscaró Hemingway museum, Staff
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: ヘミングウェイ / marginalia / digitization / 蔵書研究

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this project is to (1) decipher the marginalia of the paper materials, such as books and maps, that were digitized in the Hemingway museum; (2) analyze them; and (3) publish the results. In regards to (1), deciphering and transcribing have been completed with almost all of the marginalia written by Hemingway. Regarding (2) and (3), the research on the map and its marginalia revealed a relationship between his writing and his car journeys between Cuba and the U.S mainland in the ’50s. The research on his handwritten “record of checks”, meanwhile, revealed that Hemingway surprisingly took meticulous care with his financial management during the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, with particular attention being given to the tuition fees of his children from his previous wife, income tax payments, and advances from his publisher.

Free Research Field

アメリカ文学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究による成果である、(1)デジタル化された1339アイテムの「書き込み」資料、(2)その中のヘミングウェイ直筆「書き込み」227アイテムの判読データ、(3)これらのアイテムを①資料出版年、②著者、③タイトル、④書き込み者などでソーティングできる検索データベースの構築により、キューバのヘミングウェイ所蔵のヘミングウェイに関わる紙媒体資料の半永久的な保護、保存が達成された。また、検索データベースの構築により、世界中のヘミングウェイ研究者がこれらの資料に比較的容易にアクセスできる基盤を整えることができた。