2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Joyce, Beckett, Cotext and Reconstructing Narrative Theories
| Project/Area Number |
23520296
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Aichi University of Education |
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Principal Investigator |
DOKI Kazuhiro 愛知教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (10197999)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | ジェイムズ・ジョイス / サミュエル・ベケット / 物語論 / コンテクスト |
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| Research Abstract |
Based on my own research in France and Germany, I have succeeded in mapping the historical and cultural context of Samuel Beckett and James Joyce from 1920s through World War II. Then referring to the latest knowledge of narrative theories, I have elucidated the intertextuality of Beckett's early novels and Joyce's novels such as Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. There exist elaborate correspondences between them in terms of characterization and settings.
Also I have analyzed how W. B. Yeats and his life are used and textualized in Joyce's Ulysses in order to set up a model study for overcoming biographical and thematic approaches and create a new methodology for explicating how text, author, and history are related to each other.
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