Nature's Agency in Literature: Ecocritical Experiments

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26580067
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Literature in general
• Research Institution: Josai International University
• Principal Investigator: Haga Koichi 城西国際大学, 国際人文学部, 准教授 (70647635)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 東日本大震災 / 小説 / 環境批評

Outline of Final Research Achievements

By drawing mainly on the contemporary eco-critical theories, this study tries to assess the relationships between the Great East Japan Earthquake and the forms and contents of the literary works written under its influence and situate them in the field of global environmental humanities by analyzing the works from ecological perspectives.
During the research period, I published two academic articles and wrote one chapter for a co-authored book that will come out this year. I also have done conference and workshop presentations four times during my research period―three times in Japan and once in the U.S.

Free Research Field

文学批評、理論、現代日本文学