2021 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Pacific Paratexts in Anglophone Writing, 1768-1914
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19K00446
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| Research Institution | Meiji University |
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Principal Investigator |
ワトソン アレックス 明治大学, 文学部, 専任准教授 (40609062)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | Paratexts / Pacific / Travel writing / Annotation / English literature / Imperialism / Nineteenth century |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
I published a peer-reviewed chapter "The Perverse Footnote: Roland Barthes’ “The Pleasure of the Text” (1973) and the Politics of Paratextuality" in “The Pleasure in/of the Text: About the Joys and Perversities of Reading” (edited by Fabien Arribert-Narce, Fuhito Endo and Kamila Pawlikowska for Peter Lang Press. I also published reviews of Norbert Lennartz (ed.) “The Lost Romantics: Forgotten Poets, Neglected Works and One-hit Wonders” in “Byron Journal”, vol. 49, no. 1, 2021 and Joshua Wong’s “Unfree Speec in “Kyoto Journal”, September 2021.
I gave a paper a paper "The Margins as Bonds" at International Conference on Romanticism, Charleston, USA, October 14-16 2021 and "Sites of Romantic Regeneration: Herman Melville’s Paratexts for “Typee” (1846)” at RSAA Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, November 2021. I co-hosted a salon on “Romantic Paratexts and Marginality” with Dr. Corrina Readioff at the BARS International Conference, UK 2021. I co-organised a collaborative workshop between Meiji University and Edinburgh entitled “"Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and Beyond Roland Barthes" on March 16. I gave a presentation on W. G. Sebald.
I co-edited a collection of essays on Roland Barthes and Intermedia with Fabien Arribert-Narce, University of Edinburgh, for prospective publication by Peter Lang, hopefully in the next academic year. I completed and submitted articles and book chapters on Stephenson, Shelley and Melville, and began a new article on Romantic Translation.
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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
My personal research is proceeding largely as planned. However I had planned to hold an international conference related to this project entitled “Pacific Paratext”s in November 2020. I had secured Professor Rod Edmond and Ann Johnston as plenaries, sent out an international call for papers and made a conference website. However, due to the coronoa virus situation I have decided to delay the conference a further year to October or November 2022. For this reason, I applied for an extension to this Kakenhi project.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
I managed to give some international talks via zoom this year. I also focused on my submitting papers to international peer-reviewed journals and book collections and developing my monograph project. However, due to the corona virus situation, I will not be able to organize the mooted conference in November this year, as I had hoped.
Due to the continuation of the corona virus situation, I will continue to focus on the monograph project and on further writing submissions. In addition to progressing on my monograph project, I plan to complete the editing of the collection of essays on Roland Barthes and Intermedia, and to complete an article on Melville for European Romantic Review and an article on Blake in Japanese translation for an edited collection entitled “Unknown Tongues: Romanticism and minor/marginal languages”, edited by Dr. Brecht de Groote. I have been accepted to give papers at International Gothic Association Conference, Trinity College Dublin, July 2022 and the NASSR/BARS Joint Conference, Edge Hill University, August 2022. I have organized to give papers on my research at zoom workshops held by Ghent University, Belgium, and National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
I plan to hold the “Pacific Paratexts” conference by the end of the academic year. I will also co-organize day symposia on “Border Crossings” (at Meiji University, 17 December 2022) and “Thresholds: Walter Benjamin and Intermedia” (March 2023).
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| Causes of Carryover |
I have extended my reseacrh project for another year as I could not host an international conference I planned to host. I plan to use this budget mostly for the conference in 2022.
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