2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
The influence of Eastern religion on selected British authors
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19K00416
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Keywords | English literature / British authors / Eastern religion / Iris Murdoch / Lawrence Durrell / Ted Hughes |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In 2023, I made the following four presentations.1) ‘Iris Murdoch and Yukio Mishima'at the 3rd International Colloquiumin Contemporary Philosophy and Culture of the Society for Philosophy as Global Conversation:‘Cultural Encounters: Impacts and Inspirations', at Capacete International Art Residency, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 8th-10th, 2023. 2) ‘Hidden Buddhism in Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet'.Invited talk at the American University of Cairo, September 20th, 2023. 3) ‘Chinese History of Colden Water: Ted Hughes and Buddhist Texts’, at ICAS 2023- 11th International Conference on Asian Studies:‘Asian Dynamism- Peace, Security and Growth" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 23rd-24th, 2023-2024. 4) ‘“Mishima’s Dog Blocking the waterfall”: Iris Murdoch and Yukio Mishima’s The Sea of Fertility’ at the 23rd Iris Murdoch Society of Japan conference, at Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo, November 4th, 2023.
And I also published a report below.
1) Report on the 22nd Conference of the Iris Murdoch Society of Japan,
26 November 2022 in The Iris Murdoch Review No 14 2023, pp. 110-111.
With Chiho Omichi.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The work is now progressing more smoothly after delays caused by Covid. I have completed the conference presentations and published the papers that I intended and am involved in an editing project closely related to the kakenhi project. I am also on the thesis committee for a PhD related to the topic. However, I will need more time if I am to publish a book related to the work.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In 2024, I will attend the Fourth Global Conversations conference in Nagano, at Nagano University (May 31st - June 3rd) where I will give a paper on the relationship between nature and spirituality in the work of Ted Hughes with reference to Japanese themes. In July, I will attend the 'Dark Durrell' International Lawrence Durrell Society conference in Athens at the Kapodistrian University of Athens, where I will give a paper on 'dark spirituality' in Durrell with relation to Eastern themes.In September this year, I will give a presentation at the International Iris Murdoch Society at Chichester University on intertextuality in The Book and the Brotherhood, including reference to Japanese themes. I also intend to give a paper on Iris Murdoch at the forthcoming Iris Murdoch Society of Japan in meeting in Uji or Kyoto this November (topic and location to be confirmed). I will revise these papers for publication.I will be continuing to work on editing the volume Iris Murdoch and the East with my co-editor Rob Hardy and intend to approach Palgrave
Macmillan with a proposal for a book on Iris Murdoch.
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| Causes of Carryover |
There is some amount to be used in the next fiscal year 2024 because I could not travel abroad for the research and the conference during the period of COVID. I plan to use it for a part of the research travel expense in 2024.
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[Presentation] ‘Iris Murdoch and Yukio Mishima’2023
Author(s)
Fiona Tomkinson
Organizer
The 3rd International Colloquium in Contemporary Philosophy and Culture of the Society for Philosophy as Global Conversation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 8th- 10th, 2023
Int'l Joint Research
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