2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Modernism and Autobiography : Constructing Alternative Theories of Self-Representation
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20520217
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Hitotsubashi University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKAI Asako Hitotsubashi University, 大学院・言語社会研究科, 教授 (10246001)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 英文学 / 批評理論 / モダニズム / 自伝 |
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| Research Abstract |
In this project I examined the process in which modernist literature constructed alternative theories of self-representation. I studied autobiographical texts written by high-modernists, with a specific focus on unfinished memoirs by Virginia Woolf. At the same time I researched on autobiographies of the modernist era, such as memoirs and travel writing written by women journalists and immigrants; by so doing, I tried to reconsider how high modernist theories were related to these non-canonical texts. Also, I attempted to reconstruct a theory on autobiography from the point of view of contemporary critical theory and postcolonial literature.
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Research Products
(9 results)
