2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Pluralist Risk as Feelings and the Poetics of Survival: Liretary Responses to the Great Acceleration
Project/Area Number |
20K00413
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Review Section |
Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
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Research Institution | Aoyama Gakuin University |
Principal Investigator |
Yuki Masami 青山学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (50303699)
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Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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Keywords | エコクリティシズム / 環境文学 / リスク / ネイチャーライティング / 人新世 / 環境人文学 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Abstract (1000 letters) This research analyzes pluralistic literary expressions of what risk scholars refer to as “risk as feelings,” which is not usually included, if not ignored, in a conventional, progressive notion of risk. Drawing connections between risk as feelings and what the Marxist art critic and writer John Berger called “a culture of survival” (as opposed to a culture of progress), this study discusses (1) a Thoreauvian extravagant literary style as a modern manifestation of a culture of survival, (2) the decentralizing potential of an idea of urban nature, (3) aspects of multispecies entanglement in the Technosphere, (4) an emergence of an updated culture of survival in a notion of reciprocity. Based on its analyses, this research also contributes to the organizational movement of Environmental Humanities in Japan.
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Free Research Field |
アメリカ文学、環境文学
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
原発事故や気候危機をはじめとする環境問題をテーマ(あるいは背景)とする文学作品に、確率論的手法では捉えられない不安や割り切れない気持ちといった「リスク感覚」が滲んでいることを明らかにした本研究は、人間ならざるものを含む他者との共感的関係の構築における文学的想像力への学術的・社会的関心を高めることに貢献するものである。また、地球環境問題が深刻化し従来の価値観の見直しが求められているなか、本研究は、個人的・社会的思考の再調整における文学の役割を立証したことで、他者と共生する社会の有り様を具体的に考えるための一つの手掛かりを与え、その点に本研究の社会的意義がある。
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