2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
グローバル・モダニズムと日本語翻訳における英・仏・露文学の受容に関する研究
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23KF0018
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
秦 邦生 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (00459306)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
JOHNSON RYAN 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2023-04-25 – 2025-03-31
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| Keywords | Modernism / Modern Literature / Translation / Comparative Literature / モダニズム / 近現代文学 / 翻訳 / 比較文学 |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The project has achieved numerous milestones in international collaboration and research dissemination. I presented my research at three conferences: at Edinburgh, Melbourne, and Ritsumeikan Universities. After my presentation in Edinburgh, I undertook archival research at the British Library, where I uncovered valuable documents in English, French, and Japanese. I invited two scholars from Australia and the United States to give well-attended lectures on global modernism at Tokyo University. Additionally, I have become a board member of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network, for which I organized an online panel in July 2023 on modernism and politics featuring academics from Australia, Japan, and the United States. All these activities were invaluable in ensuring the project’s foundational essay, which was accepted in January 2024 to Journal of Modern Literature.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The project has met and, in many cases, exceeded its goals for the year. This project’s first publication will appear in one of the project’s target journals, Journal of Modern Literature, and marshals the project’s various languages to argue for the research’s significance to world literature. The multiple events that I have organized at Tokyo University and online have facilitated international collaboration between Tokyo and such universities as Adelaide, Chicago, Keio, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Sydney, and have brought together leading scholars working on modern literature across Asian and European languages. I have ongoing collaborations with each of the scholars that I have invited, including as part of my role as co-editor of the Global Circulation Project for the leading journal Literature Compass, a role I that I was offered thanks to my research at Tokyo, and which will ensure wide dissemination of the project’s results.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The research will proceed according to the initial plan. As I complete my book manuscript, I will submit another part of my research for publication in one of the target journals. With my host, Professor Kunio Shin, and two scholars of modernism in Tokyo, I am organizing an international conference to take place in September at the Komaba Campus. The conference will feature keynotes and talks by scholars from Northwestern, Oxford, and the University of Pennsylvania. Moreover, I am organizing a hybrid workshop on modern literature and translation. Scheduled for September, the workshop will include a keynote speech by a leading scholar of world literature from Australia, and contributions from an interdisciplinary group of academics from institutions in Tokyo. I am also scheduled to present more of my research at the Modernist Studies in Asia conference at the University of Hong Kong in May 2024, as part of a panel with Professor Shin.
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| Causes of Carryover |
The reason for which money remains from fiscal year 2023 is that we were able to economize when inviting one academic from abroad. Professor Olga Solovieva, who gave a talk on Akira Kurosawa and Russian literature at Tokyo University, Komaba, on 30 August 2023, had already planned to visit Japan to participate in a conference in Nagoya. Thus, we needed only to pay for her hotel, Shinkansen ticket from Nagoya to Tokyo, and daily maintenance fee for two days. The remaining amount, \106,705, will be used next year partly to disburse fees related to the conference we are planning to hold at Tokyo in September, and partly to acquire books and consult archival materials needed for completing the book manuscript that will be the capstone of this project.
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