2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Reconstruction of Images of Death Represented by Modern Japanese Literature and Film in Comparison with the West and Asia
| Project/Area Number |
26580047
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Japanese literature
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| Research Institution | Otsuma Women's University (2016)
Otsuma Women's University Junior College Division (2014-2015) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 死生学 / 表象 / 映画 / 日本近代文学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We consume enormous images of death in modern society. But strictly speaking, no one can tell or even think about it correctly, because death is a transcendental phenomenon. Nevertheless, there were many attempts in modern Japanese literature and film to capture the true image of death. The aim of our research was to clarify how death has been represented by modern Japanese literature and film in comparison with the West and Asia.
In other words, our research started from the double impossibility of representation. Death is always with us as a transcendental phenomenon which nobody could tell or see. We tried to find the modern way in which empiricism tied up with transcendence.
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| Free Research Field |
日本文学
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