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2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Studies of Modern Irish Theater and Establishment of a Related Research Center

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18320052
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field ヨーロッパ語系文学
Research InstitutionWaseda University

Principal Investigator

OKAMURO Minako  Waseda University, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Professor (10221847)

Project Period (FY) 2006 – 2007
KeywordsIrish Theatre / Samuel Beckett / Thomas Murphy / Frank McGuinness / W.B. Yeats / Martin McDonagh / William Poel / James Joyce
Research Abstract

The project resulted in the establishment of a Japanese center for research on Irish theater. In particular the center has promoted research approaches to the Irish theater from multiple viewpoints, as well as the collecting of archiving of materials for theater research. Hiroko Mikami(20181860, Waseda University, Faculty of International Liberal Studies, Professor) served as lead investigator of the project in 2006. Minako Okamuro assumed this role in 2007, as Mikami was on sabbatical leave.
The project has encompassed the following three activities :
1. Study of Irish theater from multiple viewpoints. Mikami focused on the plays of Thomas Murphy and Frank McGuinness, and Okamuro on those of Samuel Beckett and William Butler Yeats. Moreover the project resulted in the publication of a collection of essays, developed from a preceding research project(Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B[153200401, 2003-2005), on Irish theater; the collection, Ireland on Stage : Beckett and After(Dublin : Carysfort Press, 2007), was edited by Hiroko Mikami, Minako Okamuro, and Naoko Yagi, and includes contributions by such leading Irish scholars as Declan Kiberd, Anthony Roche, and Christopher Murray of University College Dublin, as well as by Japanese researchers.
2. Archives and databases. The researchers collected and archived extensive materials relating to Beckett and McGuiness. The researchers furthermore created databases to facilitate access to these materials.
3. International Samuel Beckett Symposium in Tokyo 2006. The project helped to hold the first Beckett conference in East Asia, which Okamuro organized. The conference, held at Waseda University from September 29 to October 1, 2006, significantly furthered Beckett studies in Japan while promoting international communication between Beckett scholars. The proceedings of the conference are to be published as Volume 19 of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui by Rodopi(Amsterdam) in 2008, with Okamuro as chief editor.

  • Research Products

    (18 results)

All 2008 2007 2006 Other

All Journal Article (5 results) Presentation (9 results) Book (3 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Words and Music, …but the clouds… and Yeats's'The Tower'2008

    • Author(s)
      Okamuro, Minako.
    • Journal Title

      Beckett at 100 : Revolving It All, eds. Linda Ben-Zvi and Angela Moorjani, New York : Oxford University Press

      Pages: 217-229

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] McDonagh's Drama of Resilience : Japanese Reception of His Plays2008

    • Author(s)
      Mikami, Hiroko.
    • Journal Title

      Floating World/Emerald Isle : Japan as Site of Intercultural Irish Theatre, ed.(Kevin J. Wetmore. Jr.) (forthcoming)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Joycean Narrative in Beckett's Ohio Impromptu:Who Veils the Name of the 'dear' Person2007

    • Author(s)
      Minako Okamuro
    • Journal Title

      演劇研究センター紀要:早稲田大学21世紀COEプログラム「演劇の総合的研究と演劇学の確立」 IIIV

      Pages: 131-139

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Ireland on Stage : Beckett and After2007

    • Author(s)
      Mikami, Hiroko, Minako Okamuro, Naoko Yagi, eds.
    • Journal Title

      Amsterdam : Rodipi

      Pages: 186

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Joycean Narrative in Beckett's Ohio Impromptu : Who Veils the Name of the'dear'Person?2007

    • Author(s)
      Okamuro, Minako.
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the 21st Century COE Institute for Theatre Research VIII

      Pages: 131-139

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Presentation] Yeats's Deirdre and Webster's Duchess of Malfi at the Time of William Poel's Elizabethan Revival2008

    • Author(s)
      Mikami, Hiroko
    • Organizer
      School of English, Drama and Film Research Seminar
    • Place of Presentation
      University College Dublin
    • Year and Date
      2008-01-23
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Presentation] A Japanese Endgame and the New 'Lost Generation'2007

    • Author(s)
      Okamuro, Minako
    • Organizer
      MLA(Session 747. "New Approaches to Endgame")
    • Place of Presentation
      Hyatt Regency,Chicago
    • Year and Date
      2007-12-30
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Presentation] A Japanese Endgame and the New 'Lost Generation'2007

    • Author(s)
      Okamuro, Minako
    • Organizer
      MLA(Session 747. New Approaches to Endgame )
    • Place of Presentation
      Hyatt Regency, Chicago
    • Year and Date
      2007-12-30
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Presentation] ...but the clouds...as a Seance and a Yeatsian Phantasmagoria2006

    • Author(s)
      Okamuro, Minako
    • Organizer
      International Samuel Beckett Symposium in Tokyo 2006:Borderless Beckett
    • Place of Presentation
      Waseda University
    • Year and Date
      2006-09-29
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Presentation] ...but the clouds... as a Seance and a Yeatsian Phantasmagoria.2006

    • Author(s)
      Okamuro, Minako
    • Organizer
      International Samuel Beckett Symposium in Tokyo 2006 : Borderless Beckett
    • Place of Presentation
      Waseda University
    • Year and Date
      2006-09-29
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Presentation] Joyce's 'Uncle Charles Principle' in Ohio Impromptu2006

    • Author(s)
      Okamuro, Minako
    • Organizer
      Samuel Beckett Working Group "Beckett at 100:Looking Back/Looking Forward"
    • Place of Presentation
      Trinity College,Dublin
    • Year and Date
      2006-04-08
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Presentation] Joyce's 'Uncle Charles Principle' in Ohio Impromptu .2006

    • Author(s)
      Okamuro, Minako
    • Organizer
      Samuel Beckett Working Group Beckett at 100 : Looking Back/Looking Forward
    • Place of Presentation
      Trinity College, Dublin.
    • Year and Date
      2006-04-08
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Presentation] Beckett and the Occult2006

    • Author(s)
      Okamuro, Minako
    • Organizer
      Samuel Beckett Centenary Symposium(invited)
    • Place of Presentation
      Trinity College,Dublin
    • Year and Date
      2006-04-07
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Presentation] Beckett and the Occult.2006

    • Author(s)
      Okamuro, Minako
    • Organizer
      Samuel Beckett Centenary Symposium(invited)
    • Place of Presentation
      Trinity College, Dublin.
    • Year and Date
      2006-04-07
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] Words and Music, ...but the clouds...and Yeats's 'The Tower in Beckett at 100:Revolving It All, eds.Linda Ben-Zvi and Angela Moorjani2008

    • Author(s)
      Minako Okamuro
    • Total Pages
      352
    • Publisher
      New York:Oxford Press
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] McDonagh's Drama of Resilience:Japanese Reception of His Plays in Floating World/Emerald Isle:Japan as Site of Intercultural Irish Theatre, ed.Kevin J.Wetmore.Jr.2008

    • Author(s)
      Hiroko Mikami
    • Publisher
      Edwin Mellen Press(New York)(Forthcoming)
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] Ireland on Stage:Beckett and After2007

    • Author(s)
      Hiroko Mikami, Minako Okamuro, Naoko Yagi, eds.
    • Total Pages
      186
    • Publisher
      Dublin:Carysfort Press
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Remarks] 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より

    • URL

      http://www.waseda.jp/prj-21coe-enpaku/temp/samuel_html/

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Published: 2010-02-04  

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