2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Philosophy and literature in the eighteenth century in France
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21720108
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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 |
European literature (English literature excluded)
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| Research Institution | Utsunomiya University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2012
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| Keywords | 思想と文学 |
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| Research Abstract |
The present study aimed to explore relationship between the form and the content of the fictions written by radical French philosophers in the eighteenth century. In the result, two points were especially clarified: (1) literary mechanisms of Lettres persanes, such as letters, translations, allegories, and satires, by which Montesquieu represents his critical attitudes toward the despotism, and (2) literary mechanisms of Diderot's novels, such as narratives, plots, dialogues, and figures, by whichhe represents the idea of “the limitations of the human beings."
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