2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study of French reportages on the urban everyday life
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23520404
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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 |
European literature (English literature excluded)
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University (2012-2013)
Waseda University (2011) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 都市 / 日常 / 破壊 / 制約 / ペレック |
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| Research Abstract |
In the past few decades in France, a number of works of reportage have attempted to set down the everyday aspects of urban life that usually go unnoticed. One good example is Francois Maspero's Roissy-Express: A Journey Through the Paris Suburbs (1990). Francois Bon's Iron landscape (2000). There is also A Blank white paper (2007) by Phillipe Vasset. All these works might be described as experimental attempts to notice everyday topographies that would otherwise escape people's attention. In this study, firstly I discussed the writers' perspectives, making specific reference to their descriptions. Secondly I considered the extent of contemporary social criticism that is inherent in each attempt.
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Research Products
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