Correlation of D. H. Lawrence and Popular Fiction During the Time of the First World War and Interwar Period

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520332
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Kumamoto Health Science University
• Principal Investigator: IWAI Gaku 熊本保健科学大学, 保健科学部, 准教授 (70369859)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: D. H. ロレンス / ポピュラー・フィクション / 第一次大戦 / バータ・ラック / 炭坑文学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research intends to disclose the correlation between canonical Modernist texts by such authors as D. H. Lawrence, and popular fiction which was widely read at the time of publication but has long been forgotten. In order to do so, this study attempts to connect two streams of researches: 1) the analysis of the modernist texts in terms of the wartime ideology; 2) re-reading of non-canonical works like popular romance in terms of the wartime ideology, nationalism, the ideology of the empire.

Free Research Field

D. H. ロレンスを中心とした20世紀英文学