2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Analysis of Ideologies in the Landscapes Represented in the Literary Works of American Renaissance
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19720065
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
ヨーロッパ語系文学
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| Research Institution | The University of Kitakyushu |
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Principal Investigator |
KIDO Mitsuyo The University of Kitakyushu, 外国語学部, 准教授 (10351991)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | 19世紀アメリカ文学 / アメリカン・ルネッサンス / ナサニエル・ホーソーン |
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| Research Abstract |
The good results of this study come from the analysis of historical ideologies represented in the landscapes, places or spaces described in the works by American Renaissance writers, especially those by Nathaniel Hawthorne, conducted by employing the recent academic approaches to landscapes or spaces in the various fields from ecology to geography and ecological literary criticism. This study shows how strongly the contemporary political ideologies beneath such symbolic or mythical images and discussions of place such as wilderness, frontier, city, or utopian communities prevailed in the nineteenth century are reflected in the works of the antebellum American writers.
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Research Products
(11 results)
