2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Cultural Study on the History of Book Clubs in the United States
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24520279
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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 |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Aichi University of Education |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 米文学 / 大衆文学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
As a result of this study on the history of the book clubs in the United States, a book and a paper were published. (1)The book, The Portraits of Holden Caulfield (Shinjuku-Shobo, 2014), treats of two well-known book clubs in America, that is, "the Book-of-the-Month Club," a mail-order book sales club, and "Oprah's Book Club," a book discussion TV program. It deals with the prosperity and decline of those two book clubs, and also discusses the merits and demerits of“the book-club boom”in 20th century America. (2)A paper,“Oprah Winfrey and Her Disciples,”describes in detail how one TV personality, Oprah Winfrey, created the‘book-club boom’in America at the turn of the century.
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| Free Research Field |
人文学
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