2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Melville's Orientalism : His Views on the Far East and Southern Isles
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20720071
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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 |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Gakugei University |
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Principal Investigator |
SAIKI Ikuno Tokyo Gakugei University, 教育学部, 准教授 (90294355)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | アメリカ文学 / オリエンタリズム / ハーマン・メルヴィル |
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| Research Abstract |
I have researched geographical, political, historical and aesthetical meanings of the Far East and Southern Islands mentioned directly or alluded figuratively in Herman Melville's literary works, and have clarified how Melville takes advantage of and at the same time subverts the cultural and social rhetoric of Orientalism in nineteenth-century America. Though "the Orient" in the nineteenth century had been academically considered to signify the Near East, I have expanded the definition of the Orient to include the Far East, and have reinterpreted some works of Melville's in this new historical frame of reference.
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