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2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Transatlantic : How the Literary Imagination Creates the Intenelationship between Britaidi and America

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18520196
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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

Principal Investigator

SASAKI Toru  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Professor (30170682)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) WAKASHIMA Tadashi  Kyoto University, Graduate Schoal of Letters, Professor (10175060)
Project Period (FY) 2006 – 2007
KeywordsCharles Dickens / Vladimir Nabokov / Transatlantic / English Novel / American Novel
Research Abstract

According to the research plan set up in 2006, we have gathered material on problems relating to the transatlantic, and have accomplished what follows in terms of publication.
Sasaki wrote (1) on Roman Polanski's film based on Dickens's novel Oliver Twist, (2) on Chesterton's classic study of Dickens, noting Chesterton's emphasis on Dickens's transatlantic experience, namely his travel to America in 1842; (3) on Edmund Wilson's famous study of Dickens which provoked hostile reactions from British critics such as Philip Collins and Q. D. Leavis (based on paper read at an international conference in Amsterdam); (4) on a recent study of Dickens, pointing out an American critic's difficulty of understanding Dickens because of cultural differences.
Wakashima, in his research, has broadened the notion of "transatlantic" and wrote (1) on the “transcultural" aspect of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita in terms of its translation; (2) on the transpacific cultural exchange between Shigeo Tobita and John Hawkes; (3) a book-length study on Nabokov, and (4) edited an annotated translation of Nabokov's annotated translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, showing how it is influenced by the French translation. He also organized a symposium on "Cosmopolitanism and British and American Literature", reading a paper on two contemporary novelists, a Russian in Germany and a Russian in America, with reference to their difference from Nabokov.

  • Research Products

    (19 results)

All 2008 2007 2006 Other

All Journal Article (14 results) Presentation (3 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] A Companion that Misreads Dickens2008

    • Author(s)
      Sasaki, Toru
    • Journal Title

      Rising Generation 153.12

      Pages: 748-50

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Edmund Wilson's The Two Scrooges Reconsidered2008

    • Author(s)
      Sasaki, Toru
    • Journal Title

      The Dickensian 104.1

      Pages: 32-43

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Latticed Window Revisited : Lolita and Chess2008

    • Author(s)
      Wakashima, Tadashi
    • Journal Title

      Rising Generation 154.1

      Pages: 3-7

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] ディケンズ入門2007

    • Author(s)
      佐々木 徹
    • Journal Title

      英語青年 153.6

      Pages: 353-55

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] ディケンズを誤読する『必携』2007

    • Author(s)
      佐々木 徹
    • Journal Title

      英語青年 153.12

      Pages: 748-50

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] ジョン・ホークスと飛田茂雄2007

    • Author(s)
      若島 正
    • Journal Title

      英語青年 153.9

      Pages: 541-46

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] We Ask for More : A Note on Polanski's Oliver Twist2007

    • Author(s)
      Sasaki, Toru
    • Journal Title

      The Dickensian 102.3

      Pages: 240-42

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Introduction to Dickens2007

    • Author(s)
      Sasaki, Toru
    • Journal Title

      Rising Generation 153.6

      Pages: 353-55

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] John Hawkes and Shigeo Tobita2007

    • Author(s)
      Wakashima, Tadashi
    • Journal Title

      Rising Generation 153.9

      Pages: 541-46

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] From Novel to Film : Oliver Twist2006

    • Author(s)
      Sasaki, Toru
    • Journal Title

      Rising Generation 152.4

      Pages: 22-24

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Henry James's Point of View2006

    • Author(s)
      Sasaki, Toru
    • Journal Title

      Rising Generation 152.6

      Pages: 5-7

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Introduction to Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton

    • Author(s)
      Sasaki, Torui
    • Journal Title

      Wordsworth Editions, UK

      Pages: 7-20

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] "Translation as Border-Crossing" in Humanities in The Age of Globalization

    • Author(s)
      Wakashima, Tadashi
    • Journal Title

      Kyoto University Press, Japan

      Pages: 443-65

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Nabokov's Commentary on Eugene Onegin

    • Author(s)
      Wakashima, Tadashi, et. al.
    • Journal Title

      Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters, Japan

      Pages: 519

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Presentation] 亡命文学の変容2007

    • Author(s)
      若島 正
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会関西支部年次大会
    • Place of Presentation
      大阪大学
    • Year and Date
      2007-12-22
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Presentation] Transformation of Exile Literature2007

    • Author(s)
      Wakashima, Tadashi
    • Organizer
      Annual Meeting of Kansai Society of English Literature
    • Place of Presentation
      Osaka University
    • Year and Date
      2007-12-22
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Presentation] Edmund Wilson's The Two Scrooges Reconsidered2006

    • Author(s)
      Sasaki, Torn
    • Organizer
      Annual Conference of the Dickens Fellowship
    • Place of Presentation
      Amsterdam
    • Year and Date
      2006-07-28
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] Introduction to "Charles Dickens" by G. K. Chesterton2007

    • Author(s)
      佐々木 徹(Toru Sasaki)
    • Total Pages
      xx+154
    • Publisher
      Wordsworth Editions, UK
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] Lolita, Lolita, Lolita

    • Author(s)
      Wakashima, Tadashi
    • Total Pages
      291
    • Publisher
      Sakuhin-sha, Japan
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2010-02-04  

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