2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An Interdisciplinary Study of Utopian Discourse in the Long Nineteenth Century from the viewpoint of Human Transposition and Imagination
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21520235
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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 | Fukushima University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAWATA Jun 福島大学, 人間発達文化学類, 准教授 (70323186)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | ユートピア / 社会主義 / 帝国主義 / 移動 / 想像力 / 長い十九世紀 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study clarified creative characteristics of the utopian discourse in the Long Nineteenth Century through reexamining them from the viewpoint of human transposition and imagination. Though utopian texts in the nineteenth century have been regarded as dystopian, they can be interpreted as creative discourse with heterogeneous possibilities. I conducted this study in the following three steps :(1) Collecting disregarded utopian texts in the age.(2) Examining (1)'s texts through the viewpoint of actual / imaginary transposition.(3) Clarifying not only dystopian characteristics but also different and new utopian characteristics in them.
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