2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Aged Women Characters in Modern and Contemporary French literature
| Project/Area Number |
25370358
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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 |
European literature
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| Research Institution | Nara Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
Takaoka Naoko 奈良女子大学, 人文科学系, 教授 (30403314)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 仏文学 / 文学一般 / ジェンダー / 女性学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of my research was to reveal the mechanism of the strict rules of "gender" structure, analyzing the judgments by men on the "Aged women" in literature. First, I have observed the strong hate and horror for old women in novels written by male writers. Certainly, almost identical ways were shared by women writers, but I saw that some writers, like George Sand, Marguerite Yourcenar, Simone de Beauvoir, Annie Ernaux, etc., had shown a clear intention to save the women’s dignity, by describing their own dying mother. I note that these writers have provided evidence of the possibility of strong and friendly relationship between two generations of women.
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| Free Research Field |
フランス文学
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