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¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥100,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The summary of research results follows, corresponding to the content of five chapters of research results to be submitted.
Concerning Seferis, the following researches were made the comparison of the vocabulary used m'16 Haiku with those in other longer poems, whose themes are glimpsed in '16 Haiku' at their germinal stage the discussion of the role of haiku form in modern Greek poetry and the significance of poetic rendezvous between Greek and Japanese literary tradition.
With regard to Elytis, the following researches were made the survey of allusions and quotations of Sappho's name and fragments in the modern Greek translation of Sappho and the prosaic as well as poetic work by Elytis, the comparative study of Sappho Fr. 31, Catullus 51 and Elytis's version from the viewpoint of transformed poetics of lyric poetry; that of Sappho Fr. 104(a) (b) and 105 (a) (c), Catullus 62 and Elytis' version from the viewpoint of epithalamic tradition.
On Solomos, the following researches were made t
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he consideration into the meaning of Homer and his epic present in the sonnet by Ugo Foscolo and some demotic poems by Solomos, which made an important development to the modem Greek poetry; and the comparative survey of Canzoniere 126 by Petrarca and the modern Greek translation by Solomos.
Furthermore, a tentative examination into the idea of Greek tradition was made in the basis of two respects: the scrutiny of the manuscript variant readings and the Aldine edition of Aristophanes published in 1498; the presence of satiric spirit, as that in the old comedy, in the Greek shadow puppet theatre called Karagkiozi; and the message, concerning the social role of poetry, seen alive in the picture book of Aristophanes' Frogs.
In the last chapter 'A Bridge between Two Distant Cultures', a few discussions were made with regard to the strange transformation of cultural differences in the process of translation of modem Greek experimental poems into Japanese and to the enduring values of lyric poetry through the translation of classical and modem Japanese poems into Greek. Less
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