2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Novels of Haruki Murakami as World Literature
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26370433
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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 general
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | Ｗ文学 / 村上春樹 / ポストモダニズム / 比較文学 / 受容論 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
I investigated fictions by Haruki Murakami from three focal points - theory of World Literature, textual analysis, and reception study. Theory of World Literature first emerged in 2000 and its foundation has been firmly established by now. I have explored its development in its entirety. I analyzed Murakami texts mainly by comparing them to those of both his contemporary Postmodern novels and post-war modernist fictions. I believe that I have managed to demonstrate the unmistakable characteristics of Murakami's fictions as World Literature. I have also made many interviews to general readers, translators, researchers and editors of Murakami's works and they made it abundantly clear that they read his fictions not as Japanese (national) literature but global literature.
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| Free Research Field |
各国文学
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