2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Epistolary culture and the development of Russian modern literature

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19520200
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	ヨーロッパ語系文学
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	KANAZAWA Michiko The University of Tokyo, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 教授 (60143343)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	ロシア / ヨーロッパ / 18世紀 / 書簡体小説 / 手紙 / フョードル・エミン / ニコライ・カラムジン / ドストエフスキー
Research Abstract	During the term of the project the following researches were done to elucidate the relationship between the development of Russian modern literature and epistolary culture in the 18^<th> century Russia. (1) First I researched the epistolary culture in modern Russia. The epistolary culture remarkably developed in the 18^<th> century : a great many academic articles in epistolary style and private letters were published. (2) Secondly I analyzed Russian early epistolary novels and its authors. The main subject of analysis was Fyodor Emin, whose work Letters of Ernest and Doravra is the first epistolary novel in Russia. Through the researches mentioned above, we clarified that "method of epistolarity" had played a very important role in the developing process of Russian modern prose fiction.