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2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Study on the representation of sustainability in modern American literature for use in education for sustainable development

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 23720133
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionRyukoku University

Principal Investigator

MATSUOKA Shinya  龍谷大学, 政策学部, 准教授 (50351333)

Project Period (FY) 2011 – 2012
Keywords英米文学 / 持続可能性
Research Abstract

To respond to the imminent need to create sustainable societies and communities, I examined how modern American literature has represented sustainable societies and sustainable relationships between human beings and nature. On the basis of the findings of this examination, I developed materials for use in education for sustainable development (ESD) and actually used them in classrooms. During the period from 2011 to 2012, with financial support from JSPS, I examined works by William Faulkner, Robert P. Warren, Gary Snyder, and Pearl Buck and created a database of the representation of sustainability in these works. In general, literary works describe un-sustainability instead of naively believing in the possibility of sustainable relationships between human beings and nature. Specifically, works in which the disasters of war are narrated often tell us that although human beings pursue freedom and are able to achieve it temporarily, the freedom is inevitably evasive and never per anent. However, by carefully examining these extreme difficulties and looking for something positive, literature can hopefully provide us with something to pray for in this difficult world. This perspective on the world in many ways resonates with the ideal of ESD, that is, the aim to see the problems of our society and our time and struggle to find possible resolutions by collaborating with others.

  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All 2013 2012

All Journal Article (2 results) Presentation (2 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 持続発展教育と現代アメリカ文学2013

    • Author(s)
      松岡信哉
    • Journal Title

      政策学論集

      Volume: 第2巻第2号 Pages: 1-12

  • [Journal Article] 貧乏白人と奴隷制:ウォレンとフォークナーの南北戦争物語に見る自由の持続可能性2012

    • Author(s)
      松岡信哉
    • Journal Title

      政策学論集

      Volume: 第2巻第1号 Pages: 13-20

  • [Presentation] Unsustainable Freedom: The Civil War Narratives of Warren and Faulkner2012

    • Author(s)
      MATSUOKA Shinya.
    • Organizer
      Faulkner and Warren Conference, Center for Faulkner Studies
    • Place of Presentation
      Southeast Missouri State University
    • Year and Date
      20121025-27
  • [Presentation] 自由と奴隷制の相互関係-RobertPennWarrenとFaulknerにおける南北戦争2012

    • Author(s)
      松岡信哉
    • Organizer
      日本アメリカ文学会第51回全国大会
    • Place of Presentation
      名古屋大学
    • Year and Date
      20121013-14
  • [Book] 英米文学と戦争(ウォレンの『ウィルダネス』における自由と自然)2013

    • Author(s)
      須賀昭代、松岡信哉他
    • Total Pages
      195-206
    • Publisher
      英宝社
  • [Book] Hamblin Robert and Chris Reiger. Eds.MATSUOKA Shinya and others. Hunting for Cultural Hybridity in Faulkner and Morrison2013

    • Author(s)
      Faulkner and Morrison
    • Publisher
      Southeast Missouri State University

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Published: 2014-09-25  

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