2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Interdisciplinary Research on Mass Culture and the Changing Sense of Sight in American Literature in the 19th Century
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23520350
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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 | Notre Dame Seishin University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKAMURA Yoshio ノートルダム清心女子大学, 文学部, 准教授 (00361931)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 19世紀アメリカ文学 / 視覚文化 / メディア / スペクタクル / 万国博覧会 / ファンタズマゴリア / パノラマ |
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| Research Abstract |
This research focused on the visual culture invented in the 19th century, such as phantasmagoria, panorama, diorama, photography, World Exposition as a spectacle, and the influences that these visual devices exert on the viewpoint of American writers like Henry James and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and their literary themes and writing styles. As a result, the visual media aren't only introduced into works as mere gadgets, but turn out to be closely related to the nature of the characters in the works, the literary motifs, and the formation of cultural background in each novel.
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