2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Ghostly Modern : A History of Irish Novels
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21320054
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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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 | Gunma University |
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Principal Investigator |
KIKKAWA Shin 群馬大学, 教育学部, 教授 (70243615)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OOSHIMA Yukio 東京海洋大学, 海洋工学部, 教授 (10113995)
TODA Tsutomu 山梨英和大学, 人間文化学部, 教授 (90217505)
KAWAHARA Kawahara 西南学院大学, 文学部, 准教授 (80454924)
MOMOO Mika 専修大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (80445163)
TATARA Toshiki 香川大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (40510467)
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| Research Collaborator |
ODAI Katsuhik 専修大学, 非常勤講師
OKUHARA Takashi 専修大学, 文学部, 教授
YAMAUCHI Ryou 香川大学, 教育学部, 准教授
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | アイルランド / 小説 / 亡霊 / ゴシック / 近代 |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this research is to follow the history and tradition of the ghost stories or Gothic novels especially of 19th and 20th century Ireland. The tradition of English novels in Ireland has, of course, been established by Anglo-Irish writers. As the British came to Ireland, they were originally usurpers, and we cannot fail to perceive the awareness they held of their responsibility ; responsibility for creating a new modern nation as well as its own culture. Bearing, so to speak, the guilt for what previous generations had done, they could not but feel it their own duty to make Ireland into a modern nation-state. Although they refused to hand over their cultural hegemony to the Gaelic-Irish, their consciousness of their lack of legitimacy induces them to write many fictions haunted by ghosts, which might be a sort of embodiment of their repentance. This research could bring to light the fact that the ghost stories of 19th century Ireland is a cultural heritage of the Anglo-Irish writers, and after the Irish Renaissance, the heritage was succeeded, in turn, to Gaelic-Irish writers, especially James Joyce.
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