2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Prosperity of the Natural History and the Descriptive Poesy in the Eighteenth Century of France-the Reception of Buffon
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23720180
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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 |
European literature (English literature excluded)
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| Research Institution | Keio University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 仏文学 / 哲学 / 美学 |
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| Research Abstract |
The Descriptive Poesy, a genre that developed in the second half of the Eighteenth Century of France, chants not only diverse aspects of the nature that changes with the seasons, but also various sentiments of human beings who live in harmony with the nature. This research revealed the influences of Buffon's Natural History over the poets when they described natural beings and reflected on sensitivity functions. It pointed up the importance of the Descriptive Poesy, a genre that has't yet sufficiently examined, and made clear close relations between natural science and literature.
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