A Study of Representation of Russia in Modern World Literature
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17520219
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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 |
Literatures/Literary theories in other countries and areas
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| Research Institution | Yamagata University |
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Principal Investigator |
SATO Kiyoto Yamagata University, Faculty of Literature and Social Sciences, Professor (80178722)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ABE Koji Yamagata University, Faculty of Literature and Social Sciences, Professor (10167934)
NAKAMURA Miharu Yamagata University, Faculty of Literature and Social Sciences, Professor (80164341)
NAKAMURA Tadashi Yamagata University, Faculty of Literature and Social Sciences, Associate Professor (20250962)
WATANABE Masanao Yamagata University, Faculty of Literature and Social Sciences, Associate Professor (90332056)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,580,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
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| Keywords | comparative literature / literary theory |
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| Research Abstract |
In modern age, Russian literature and culture have influenced many countries across the globe. The most influential figures are Pushkin, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in literature, Shklovsky in literary theory and Eisenstein in film. Depending the traditional method analyzing Russian influence on other countries, we also notice how writers in different countries (including Russia) represent Russia in their works.
Kiyoto Sato took up the writings of Edmund Wilson, one of the American literary critics. Wilson had great interest in Russia all his life. Sato analyzes how Wilson represents Lenin, Pushkin and Communist thought. The heroic image of Lenin which Wilson described in his To the Finland Station was evidently false and then he had to admit that fault, but his sympathy for Communism as an ideal had been invariably preserved until his death.
Koji Abe considers how Russian ballet was received and related to the image of Russia in France, and he also argues that the image of Russia i
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n Blaise Cendrars' La Prose du Transsiberien et la petite Jehanne de France is the precursor of revolutionary images seen in Eisenstein's film.
Miharu Nakamura follows the vicissitudes of Russian images in Masahiko Shimada's writings from one of his early novels Yasashii Sayoku no Tameno Kiyuukyoku to the recent work Etorofu no Koi, and Nakamura demonstrates that the poor image of Russia has been transformed into the essentially humanistic image.
Tadashi Nakamura draws attention to the comparison between Petersburg and Moscow in 1830s and 1840s. While Petersburg represents the principle of Western World, Moscow represents the principle of Russia. Nakamura describes what bearing the opposition has on the self representation of Russia.
Masanao Watanabe's focus is on Bertolt Brecht. Although Brecht keenly reproached on Soviet and Communism, he kept on putting his hopes on the future of East Germany that had been founded under the influence of Soviet. Watanabe tried to find out the way the contradiction is resolved. Less
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Research Products
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[Journal Article] 松浦寿輝2007
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中村三春
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Journal Title
『展望 現代の詩歌』5「詩5」
Pages: 305-329
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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[Journal Article] David Mura's View of American Literature2006
Author(s)
SATO Kiyoto
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Journal Title
Project for the Advancement of Humanities and Social Sciences V-1, Tradition and Transborder, 2nd group, Transborder and Multicultures, Research Report vol.2
Pages: 21-26
Description
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