2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Alternative Spirituality in American Modernist Fiction and Visual Culture
| Project/Area Number |
26770108
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Hosei 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 | モダニズム文学 / 宗教 / 物質主義 / フォークナー / フィッツジェラルド |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project explores the hitherto unattended aspect of the interpenetration of materiality and spirituality in American modernist novels. Revisiting the works of Faulkner and Fitzgerald, it articulates the reason why modernist writers repeatedly showed qualms about the inefficacy of disembodied spirituality, and turned instead to the materiality of objects as embodying an alternative spirituality. By focusing on the way each novelist transforms a particular object into something spiritual by exposing its thingness, I suggest that unruly materiality that they recurrently describe can resonate with the alterity of the human subject.
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| Free Research Field |
アメリカ文学
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