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A Study of the Representation of the "American Sublime" and the Emanation of Aura in Contemporary American Literature

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13610569
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 英語・英米文学
Research InstitutionOsaka University of Foreign Studies

Principal Investigator

WATANABE Katsuaki  Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (10182908)

Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2004
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
KeywordsAmerica / sublime / aura / Don DeLillo / postmodern / media / globalization / spectacle / 身体 / グローバリズム / 死 / リチャード・パワーズ / パフォーマンス / テクノロジー / 現代アメリカ文学 / トマス・ピンチョン / 崇高美 / 広告
Research Abstract

The object of this research is to analyze the representation of the American sublime in American literature, for the purpose of explaining how the post-Benjamin aura has come to emanate from mass-produced and mass-consumed virtual images in the media-saturated postmodern society. This viewpoint is based on the observation that the characteristic American obsession with huge mythical qualities represented in the awe-inspiring landscape of the new world has been drastically transformed into the seemingly contrastive preoccupation with simulacra through the advancement of media technologies. As a result of this research, the glaring discrepancy in the American collective unconscious between the nature-orientated sublimity and the media-orientated sublimity turned out not only compatible but also affinitive in terms of their irresistible attraction to immortality.
Diachronically and synchronically delineating the American sublime extracted from various kinds of text, including fiction, drama, poetry, art, film, photo, TV, advertisement, and internet, this project particularly focused on the major postmodern novelists such as Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, Richard Powers, and Robert Coover. Taking into account what kind of twist has been given to the conventional concept of the American sublime and how it has been assimilated into the new one, this research examined the problematic emanation of the new aura form the perspective of the postmodern culture and the globalization. In consequence, it was verified that the configuration of the new aura could be detected sometimes as an uncanny apparition in waste and virtual images the late-capitalism endlessly proliferates.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2004 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2003 Annual Research Report
  • 2002 Annual Research Report
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (28 results)

All 2005 2004 2003 2001 Other

All Journal Article (15 results) Book (5 results) Publications (8 results)

  • [Journal Article] Wrong Day's Journey into Celebrity : Don DeLillo's Valparaiso2005

    • Author(s)
      渡辺克昭
    • Journal Title

      英語青年(研究社) 第150巻第11号

      Pages: 692-692

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report 2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 「崇高」という病-「享楽」の『コズモポリス』横断2004

    • Author(s)
      渡辺克昭
    • Journal Title

      英語青年(研究社) 第150巻第3号

      Pages: 156-159

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report 2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Paper Palaceの迷い子2004

    • Author(s)
      渡辺克昭
    • Journal Title

      英語青年(研究社) 第150巻第1号

      Pages: 46-46

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report 2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] ブッカー賞とスモールタウン・テキサス2004

    • Author(s)
      渡辺克昭
    • Journal Title

      英語青年(研究社) 第150巻第3号

      Pages: 162-162

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report 2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 燐光を放つtrivia2004

    • Author(s)
      渡辺克昭
    • Journal Title

      英語青年(研究社) 第150巻第5号

      Pages: 297-297

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report 2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] カオス理論とポストモダン・アメリカ小説2004

    • Author(s)
      渡辺克昭
    • Journal Title

      英語青年(研究社) 第150巻第7号

      Pages: 436-436

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report 2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Unlucky Pierreとセルロイドの詩神たち-Robert Cooverのシネシティ探訪2004

    • Author(s)
      渡辺克昭
    • Journal Title

      英語青年(研究社) 第150巻第9号

      Pages: 565-565

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report 2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] The Sublime as Illness : Jouissant Crossing of Cosmopolis2004

    • Author(s)
      Katsuaki WATANABE
    • Journal Title

      Illness and Body in English and American Literature (Eihosha)

      Pages: 86-108

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Welcome to the Imploded Future : Don DeLillo's Mao II Reconsidered in the Light of September 112003

    • Author(s)
      渡辺克昭
    • Journal Title

      The Japanese Journal of American Studies 第14号

      Pages: 69-85

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Welcome to the Imploded Future : Don DeLillo's Mao II Reconsidered in the Light of September 112003

    • Author(s)
      Katsuaki WATANABE
    • Journal Title

      The Japanese Journal of American Studies vol.14

      Pages: 69-85

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] From the Far Side of the Frame to the Darkroom of Autobiography : A Vision of Death and Reproduction in Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance2003

    • Author(s)
      Katsuaki WATANABE
    • Journal Title

      The Pendulum of the Republic : Dynamism in American Literature (Eihosha)

      Pages: 177-194

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Media, Gender, and Performance : Time and the Art of Disappearance in Body Artist2003

    • Author(s)
      Katsuaki WATANABE
    • Journal Title

      Body, Gender, and Ethnicity : The Self in American Literature at the Turn of the 21^<st> Century (Eihosha)

      Pages: 117-143

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 広告の物たちの国で--ドン・デリーロとスペクタクルの日常2001

    • Author(s)
      渡辺克昭
    • Journal Title

      Ex Oriente(嵯峨野書院) 第5号

      Pages: 67-96

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] In the Country of Advertising : Don DeLillo and Quotidian Spectacles2001

    • Author(s)
      Katsuaki WATANABE
    • Journal Title

      EX ORIENTE (Saganoshoin) vol.5

      Pages: 67-96

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Aura Emanated from Waste and the End of the Century : Uncontainable Underworld of the Cold War2001

    • Author(s)
      Katsuaki WATANABE
    • Journal Title

      The Cold War and American Literature (Sekaishisosha)

      Pages: 329-361

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] 病いと身体の英米文学2004

    • Author(s)
      渡辺克昭, 玉井〓他(共著)
    • Total Pages
      344
    • Publisher
      英宝社
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report 2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] ポストコロニアル文学の現在2004

    • Author(s)
      渡辺克昭, 木村茂雄他(共著)
    • Total Pages
      233
    • Publisher
      晃洋書房
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report 2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] 共和国の振り子--アメリカ文学のダイナミズム2003

    • Author(s)
      渡辺克昭, 大井浩二他(共著)
    • Total Pages
      400
    • Publisher
      英宝社
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] 身体、ジェンダー、エスニシティ--21世紀転換期アメリカ文学における主体2003

    • Author(s)
      渡辺克昭, 鴨川卓博他(共著)
    • Total Pages
      396
    • Publisher
      英宝社
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] 冷戦とアメリカ文学--21世紀からの再検証2001

    • Author(s)
      渡辺克昭, 山下昇他(共著)
    • Total Pages
      421
    • Publisher
      世界思想社
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kastuaki Watanabe: "Welcome to the Imploded Future : Don DeLillo's Mao II Reconsidered in the Light of September 11"The Japanese Journal of American Studies (日本アメリカ学会機関誌英文号). 14. 69-85 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 渡辺 克昭(共著): "身体、ジェンダー、エスニシティー21世紀転換期アメリカ文学における主体 担当箇所:「メディア、ジェンダー、パウォーマンス-The Body Artistにおける時と消滅の技法」117-143p"英宝社. 382 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 渡辺 克昭(共編著): "共和国の振り子-アメリカ文学のダイナミズム 担当箇所:フレームの彼岸から自伝の暗室へ-「舞踏会へ向かう三人の農夫における死と複製のヴィジョン」 177-194頁"英宝社. 386 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 渡辺 克昭: "Welcome to the Imploded Future : Don DeLillo's Mao II Reconsidered in the Light of September 11""アメリカ学会 英文ジャーナル. 14号(発行予定). (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 渡辺 克昭: "フレームの彼岸から自伝の暗室----『舞踏会へ向かう三人の農夫』における複製技術時代の死と肖像"英宝社(発刊予定). (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 渡辺 克昭: "メディア・ジェンダー・パフォーマンス---『ボディ・アーティスト』における時と消滅の技法"英宝社(発刊予定). (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 渡辺克昭: "広告の物たちの国で-ドン・デリーロとスペクタクルの日常"Ex Oriente(出版社:嵯峨野書院). 4号. 67-96 (2001)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 渡辺克昭: "『冷戦とアメリカ文学』「廃物のアウラと世紀末-封じ込められざる冷戦のUnderworld」"世界思想社. 422(329-361) (2001)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report

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