2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Comparative Study on Endeavor to Dominate and Causing Contamination on Nature
| Project/Area Number |
25370322
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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 | Ryukoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 自然の制御 / 自然の汚染 / 比較文学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this project, I examined literature focusing on human efforts to overpower nature and the accompanying contamination of the environment. Literature studies reveal insights into how a sustainable relation between human life and the natural realm can be developed. This can surely be a useful educational application when we develop materials for the classroom by using literature that presents environmental implications.
The outcome of the research included two books published by a foreign university press in which I argued about the representations of nature in Faulkner, Warren, and Hurston. I also made a presentation at the ASLE US at Idaho University, where I was given a useful suggestion by Scot Slovic, who is a distinguished scholar of ecocritical literary studies. This project was replaced by a new one in which I collaborate with one scholar from a different discipline and also one foreign scholar, and it has been accepted by JPSS as a funded research.
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| Free Research Field |
米文学
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