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2018 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

Literary Geographies of Absence

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K02538
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

HONES Sheila  東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (70206035)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 矢口 祐人  東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (00271700)
カーターホワイト リチャード  東京大学, 教養学部, 特任准教授 (00726234)
THURGILL JAMES  東京大学, 教養学部, 特任准教授 (20783210)
Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Keywordsliterary geography / space / absence / memories / empathy / engagement and distance
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

The research project ‘Literary Geographies of Absence’ (2017-18) built on earlier funded research projects in the area of literary geography to open up a new theoretical and thematic line of work for interdisciplinary literary/geographical research grounded in recent geographical work on the concept of absence. Project members also continued its work on literary geography generally, maintaining the journal Literary Geographies and organising two international workshops on literary geography, both held at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In terms of original research, for this round of the ongoing project, participants first collectively established a theoretical framework for understanding the significance of absence to author-reader interaction, vicarious reader experience, engagement across distance, and empathy. Project members also discussed collectively the connections between geographies of absence and the selective institutional remembrance of the past. Research collaborations with colleagues at Swansea Uni. (UK), Macquarie Uni. (Australia) and the Uni. of Turin (Italy) were continued. Individually, project members produced a range of conference presentations and publications linked to the theme of absence in literary geography. This output focused on questions of presence and absence in relation to topics such as major disasters (e.g. the 2011 earthquake and tsunami), historical trauma and genocide (e.g. Nazi death camps and military attacks), haunting and ghostly presences (e.g. the ghost stories of M.R. James and their Nortolk settings), and war memory narratives.

  • Research Products

    (11 results)

All 2019 2018 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (3 results) Journal Article (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Peer Reviewed: 4 results,  Open Access: 3 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Swansea/Emmanuel College (Cambridge University)(英国)

    • Country Name
      UNITED KINGDOM
    • Counterpart Institution
      University of Swansea/Emmanuel College (Cambridge University)
    • # of Other Institutions
      1
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Turin(イタリア)

    • Country Name
      ITALY
    • Counterpart Institution
      University of Turin
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Macquarie University(オーストラリア)

    • Country Name
      AUSTRALIA
    • Counterpart Institution
      Macquarie University
  • [Journal Article] Teaching literary geographies: visual analysis2018

    • Author(s)
      Hones, Sheila and Richard Carter-White
    • Journal Title

      Literary Geographies

      Volume: 4(1) Pages: 62-65

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Literary Geography and Spatial Literary Studies2018

    • Author(s)
      Hones, Sheila
    • Journal Title

      Literary Geographies

      Volume: 4(2) Pages: 146-149

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Extra-textual Encounters: locating place in the text-as-event: an experiential reading of M.R. James’ ‘A Warning to the Curious2018

    • Author(s)
      Thurgill, James
    • Journal Title

      Literary Geographies

      Volume: 4(2) Pages: 1-24

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Ghostly Voices: critical approaches to narratives of ghost stories, folklore and myth in the language-learning classroom2018

    • Author(s)
      Thurgill, James
    • Journal Title

      Komaba Journal of English Education

      Volume: 9 Pages: 81-106

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] What is Folk Horror?2019

    • Author(s)
      Thurgill, James
    • Organizer
      Manchester Folk Horror Festival 2019
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Maurice Blanchot and the re-writing of the disaster: landscape-description after Japan’s 3.112018

    • Author(s)
      Carter-White, Richard
    • Organizer
      RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] After Heritage: Critical Perspectives on Heritage From Below2018

    • Author(s)
      Hamzah Muzaini, Claudio Minca, Richard Carter-White
    • Total Pages
      187
    • Publisher
      Edward Elgar Pub
    • ISBN
      1788110730
  • [Book] Camps Revisited: Multifaceted Spatialities of a Modern Political Technology2018

    • Author(s)
      Irit Katz, Diana Martin, Claudio Minca, Richard Carter-White
    • Total Pages
      312
    • Publisher
      Rowman & Littlefield International
    • ISBN
      1786605805

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Published: 2019-12-27   Modified: 2022-06-16  

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