2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Chronotopological historiography of the GDR-literature
| Project/Area Number |
26370401
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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 | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | クロノトポス / ２０世紀ドイツ文学 / ヘテロトポス / 文学史 / 東ドイツ文学 / 文学と検閲 / 地下出版 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The aim of the project was to develop a chronotopological historiography of the GDR-literature that avoids teleological implications such as a certain development or decline. My initial research was concentrated on the concept of chronotope, but in contrast to other’s inquiries on GDR-literature, which draw on Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope, my project studied the function of the so-called samizdat literature of the 1980s in the GDR by using Foucault’s concept of heterotopy. Following further research in German archives, I presented the results of my research at a workshop in June 2015 and organized a symposium on the “literary public in the GDR”. In June 2016, I attended the conference “Uwe Johnson in his time” in Rostock presenting a paper on the narrative techniques of Johnson’s novel “Jahrestage” which analyzed the heterotopological moments on the basis of the space-time relations in this singular literary work.
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| Free Research Field |
ドイツ文学
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