| Project/Area Number |
15520184
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
ヨーロッパ語系文学
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| Research Institution | HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
ITOH Shoko Hiroshima University, Faculty of Integrated Science and Arts, Professor, 総合科学部, 教授 (60071536)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2004
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
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| Keywords | landscape / picturesque / H.D.Thoreau / luminism / gender / ecocriticism / naturewriting / ソロー |
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| Research Abstract |
The Project of "On the Problem of Race and Gender in American Nature Writing" aimed at the researches of various factors operating on the construction of landscapes in American nature writings. The research focused on the gender problem and racial faces in the works by women writers of whites, and cleared the multicultural attitude in the Southwest women writers in comparison with H.D.Thoreau's tradition.
The process of the research follows :
1)Reconsideration on the picturesque tradition of landscape in the writings by H.D.Thoreau focusing on his surveyor's business.
2)The relation between the feminine and ecocritical landscapes by T.T.Williams, Rachael Carson, Mary Austin among others and Thoreau or other nature writers.
3)On the wide influence of Walden on Japanese Literary history focusing on the hermit literature beginning in Hojo-ki by kamo no Chomei.
4)On the multicultural sense of place in Mary Austin describing the Southwest desert area where Spanish and Anglican cultures melt together on the borderless lands.
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