2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study on Raymond Williams and the Relationship between Postwar British Literature and Culture, Society, and Labour
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23720149
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Keio University (2013)
Toyo University (2011-2012) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 文学 / 文化 / 社会 / 労働 / ニューレフト |
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| Research Abstract |
I have been trying to elucidate the relationship between twentieth-century British literature and culture in terms of culture, society and labour. Culture including literature can be conceived of as the response to the change of society. Therefore, I have dealt not only with literary texts but also with history and social criticism. Especially, I focus on the works of D. H. Lawrence, Christopher Caudwell, Richard Hoggart, and Raymond Williams. I have traced the trajectory of the making of Williams's literary criticism and cultural theory by closely analyzing his novels such as _Second Generation_ and _Loyalties_, which have rarely been discussed, as well as _Culture and Society_ and _The Long Revolution_. I have also analyzed important articles in _Universities and Left Review_ and other significant magazines in the late 1950s. I published a co-authored book entitled _Keywords for Our Culture and Society_ following Raymond Williams's method of historical semantics.
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