Glance toward the Orient in the literature and arts under Habsburg Empire

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23520372
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: European literature (English literature excluded)
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: YAMAZAKI Taro 東京工業大学, 学内共同利用施設等, 教授 (40239942)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ICHIKAWA Shinji 東京工業大学, 外国語研究教育センター, 教授 (20176283) ; ANTOKU Makiko 東京工業大学, 外国語研究教育センター, 准教授 (70585132)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ヨーロッパ文化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This co-research project started by paying attention on the unique geo-political location of the Austrian Habsburg Empire, a multiracial nation where Western and Eastern civilizations meet, succeeded in demonstrating the diversity and expansivity of the theme “orientalism”, with variety of objects, geographical areas and ages(Yamazaki: Mozart’s opera, Turkey and North Africa in the 18th Century, Ichikawa:Kafka and Rilke, Eastern Orthodox Christianism, Russia, Judaism, Antoku: Hofmannstahl, ancient Greece,) and of researching approaches (Yamazaki:historical studies, investigation of old documents, Ichikawa:landscape-fieldwork and literal research on the vast academic disciplines, Antoku:analytical studies with a specific interest in the issue “philosophy of language”), and rediscovered the problem of “otherness” that lies beyond all the diversity and expansivity in the core of our theme.

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