A Study of Transatlantic Relationships in the Formation of 'American Literature'

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23320061
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Ohashi Yoichi 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 教授 (20126014)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HIRAISHI Takaki 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 名誉教授 (10133323) ; TAKAHASHI Kazuhisa 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 名誉教授 (10108102) ; ABE Masahiko 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 准教授 (30242077) ; SUWABE Koichi 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 准教授 (60376845) ; TAKUMI Mari 東京藝術大学, 音楽学部, 准教授 (60596807)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 文学 / 英米交流 / 出版 / 西洋史 / 比較文化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project reexamines the historical process of ‘American literature’ and investigates the transatlantic relationship that has been surrounding its process. Our attempt is to review the process by closely looking into the cultural relationship and the structure of literary discourse that have been historically made among those transatlantic countries. We particularly focus on the way American writers identified and differentiated the other, by means of a close analysis of the primary source that has been widely collected through our field work.

Free Research Field

英文学