American Gothic and Contemporary Literary Theory

• Project/Area Number: 20520213
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: KATO Yuji 東京外国語大学, 大学院・総合国際学研究院, 准教授 (60224549)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2011
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: アメリカ文学 / 批評理論 / 比較文学 / ゴシック / メルヴィル / ホーソーン / ポー / ディキンソン / 米文学 / エドガー・アラン・ポー / ハーマン・メルヴィル / ナサニエル・ホーソーン / 歴史 / 精神分析 / アメリカ文化 / フォークナー

Research Abstract

I discussed and wrote about American Gothic writings and their authors from international perspectives. I spoke and interacted with international scholars at internatiional Herman Melville conference and William Faulkner conference in 2008 ; I sponsored seminars with an American specialist on Nathaniel Hawthorne ; I made presentations at Edgar A. Poe conferences in both Japan and the United States in 2009 and re-examined his significance as the origin of American Gothic ; I participated in Nathaniel Hawthorne conference and Emily Dickinson conference in 2010 and re-examined 19^<th> century American gothic genre ; I cooperated with The Melville Society and published an essay in a collection of essays on Joseph Conrad and Herman Melville in the same year ; I spoke at Herman Melville conference and MLA convention in 2011 and discussed Melville' s significance in contemporary, globalized contexts with foreign scholars

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 「アメリカン・ルネッサンス」のレトリック:エドガー・アラン・ポーのポエティックス/ポリティクスとの対比において (2012)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Journal Title: 東京外国語大学『東京外国語大学論集』 Volume: 64号
• [Journal Article] エミリ・ディキンソンと不在のゴシシズム:I Died for Beautyにおける詩と死の時空間、非人称の詩学とロマンティシズム (2012)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Journal Title: 東京外国語大学『総合文化研究』 Volume: 14,15合併号 Pages: 6-16
• [Journal Article] アメリカン・ルネッサンス」のレトリック:エドガー・アラン・ポーのポエティックス/ポリティクスとの対比において (2012)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Journal Title: 東京外国語大学論集 Volume: 63号(予定)
• [Journal Article] エミリ・ディキンソンと不在のゴシシズム (2011)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Journal Title: 東京外国語大学『総合文化研究』 Volume: 15号 Pages: 6-16
• [Journal Article] エドガー・アラン・ポーとウラジーミル・ナボコフにおける回想と記憶のポリティクス:「アナベル・リー」、「初恋」、『ロリータ』 (2010)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Journal Title: 東京外国語大学『東京外国語大学論集』 Volume: 81号 Pages: 97-111
• [Journal Article] アメリカ南部社会におけるリアリズムと女性像:ケイト・ショパンとウィリアム・フォークナーの諸作品における沈黙と語り (2010)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Journal Title: 東京外国語大学論集 Volume: 80号 Pages: 35-48
  • NAID: 120005467892
• [Journal Article] エドガー・アラン・ポーの200年とその可能性 (2010)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Journal Title: 東京外国語大学『総合文化研究』 Volume: 13号 Pages: 61-77
• [Journal Article] エドガー・アラン・ポーとウラジーミル・ナボコフにおける回想と記憶のポリティクス:「アナベル・リー」、「初恋」、『ロリータ』をめぐって (2010)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Journal Title: 東京外国語大学論集
  • NAID: 120002808417
• [Journal Article] エドガー・アラン・ポーの200年 (2010)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Journal Title: 東京外国語大学総合文化研究所『総合文化研究』
• [Journal Article] エドガー・アラン・ボーとウラジーミル・ナボコフにおける回想と記憶のポリティクス:「アナベル・リー」、「初恋」、『ロリータ』をめぐって (2010)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Journal Title: 東京外国語大学論集 Volume: 81号 Pages: 197-111
• [Journal Article] エドガー・アラン・ポーの200年とその可能性:ゴシック、メランコリア、不在と反復について (2010)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Journal Title: 東京外国語大学総合文化研究所『総合文化研究』 12号 Pages: 61-77
• [Journal Article] あらかじめ失われた失われたものの痕跡 (2009)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Journal Title: 東京外国語大学『総合文化研究』 Volume: 12号 Pages: 74-94
• [Journal Article] あらかじめ失われたものの痕跡:Kazuo Ishiguro の「日本」と語り (2009)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Journal Title: 東京外国語大学総合文化研究所『総合文化研究』
• [Journal Article] あらかじめ失われたものの痕跡 : Kazuo IshiguroのA Pale View Of Hillsにおける「日本」と語り (2009)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Journal Title: 総合文化研究 12 Pages: 74-94
• [Journal Article] True Places Never Are' : Loci as Masquerades and the Transformations of Geography in Herman Melville's Texts
  • Author(s): Yuji KATO
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of "Rome and Melvile" conference Volume: (予定)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Herman Melville, Japanese Literature and the Contemporary Scholarship of the Borderless (2012)
  • Author(s): Yuji KATO
  • Organizer: Herman Melville Society's session "Traveling Melville" at MLA convention
  • Place of Presentation: Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, USA
  • Year and Date: 2012-01-05
• [Presentation] Herman Melville, Japanese Literature and Contemporary Pedagogy of the Borderless (2012)
  • Author(s): Yuji KATO
  • Organizer: ML Aconvention
  • Place of Presentation: Seattle USA
• [Presentation] 'True Places Never Are' : Loci as Masquerades and the Transformation s of Geography in Herman Melville's Texts (2011)
  • Author(s): Yuji KATO
  • Organizer: Herman Melville Society's international conference, "Melville and Rome"
  • Place of Presentation: University of Rome, Sapi Enza Italuy
  • Year and Date: 2011-06-24
• [Presentation] エドガー・アラン・ポーとアメリカン・ルネッサンス研究の新潮流 (2011)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Organizer: 日本ナサニエル・ホーソーン協会30周年記念学会
  • Place of Presentation: 小倉、西日本産業貿易コンベンション協会(招待講演)
  • Year and Date: 2011-05-20
• [Presentation] Edgar A. Poe and F. O. Matthiessen' s American Renaissance (2011)
  • Author(s): Yuji KATO
  • Organizer: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society ofJapan' s 30th Anniversary Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Kyushu Japan
• [Presentation] Readings on the Margin : Emily Dickinson's Posthumous Poetics and the English Romantics (2010)
  • Author(s): Yuji Kato
  • Organizer: Emily Dickinson International Society's international conference "Were I Britain Born"
  • Place of Presentation: Cable College, Oxford, GB
  • Year and Date: 2010-08-06
• [Presentation] Would that be all excellent books were foundlings : Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne in "Hawthorne and His Mosses," Moby-Dick, and Other Texts" (2010)
  • Author(s): Yuji Kato
  • Organizer: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, summer meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Colonial Inn, Concord, Massachusetts, USA
  • Year and Date: 2010-06-11
• [Presentation] Poetics on the Margin : Emily Dickinson' s Posthumous Poeticsand the English Romantics (2010)
  • Author(s): Yuji KATO
  • Organizer: Emily Dickinson International Society' sConference
  • Place of Presentation: Oxford, England
• [Presentation] Would that be all excellentbooks were foundlings': Herman Melvilleand Nathaniel Hawthorne in 'Hawthorne and His Mosses' Moby-Dick, and Other Texts (2010)
  • Author(s): Yuji KATO
  • Organizer: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society' s Summer Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Concord, Massachusetts
• [Presentation] Would that be all excellentbooks were foundlings': Herman Melvilleand Nathaniel Hawthorne in 'Hawthorne and His Mosses,' Moby-Dick, and Other Texts (2010)
  • Author(s): Yuji KATO
  • Organizer: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society's Summer Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Concord, Massachusetts
• [Presentation] Readings on the Margin : Emily Dickinson's Posthumous Poetics and the English Romantics (2010)
  • Author(s): Yuji Kato
  • Organizer: at Emily Dickinson International Society's conference in Oxford GB
• [Presentation] Would that be all excellent books were foundlings' : Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne in 'Hawthorne and His Mosses,' Moby-Dick, and Other Texts (2010)
  • Author(s): Yuji Kato
  • Organizer: at the summer meeting of Nathaniel Hawthorne Society in Maine US
• [Presentation] The Galapagos, the Mediterranean, and the Power of Enchantment : Herman Melville's Wandering Narrations in'Jerusalem,''The Encantadas,'and Billy Budd, Sailor (2009)
  • Author(s): Yuji Kato
  • Organizer: Herman Melville Society(US)
  • Place of Presentation: L'Ecole Biblique, Jerusalem
  • Year and Date: 2009-06-19
• [Presentation] When We Were Orphans : Edgar A. Poe, Vladimir Nabokov, and New Directions in ContemporaryCulture (2009)
  • Author(s): Yuji KATO
  • Organizer: Edgar A. Poe's Bicentennial Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Philadelphia
• [Presentation] Historicizing Poe : Edgar A. Poe's Texts and the Figire of the Writer in the Modern and PostmodernEras (2009)
  • Author(s): Yuji KATO
  • Organizer: Edgar A. Poe's Bicentennial Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Philadelphia
• [Presentation] The Galapagos, the Mediterranean, and the Power of Enchantment : Herman Melville's Wandering Poetics in "Jerusalem" (2009)
  • Author(s): Yuji KATO
  • Organizer: The Encantadas and Billy Budd, Sailor, at the 7^<th> International Herman Melville Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Jerusalem
• [Presentation] When We Were Orphans' : Edgar A.Poe, Vladimir Nabokov, and the Directions in Contemporary Culture (2009)
  • Author(s): Yuji Kato
  • Organizer: at the International Edgar Allan Poe Society in Philadelphia US
• [Presentation] ポーを(脱)歴史化する:モダニズムと現代批評におけるテクストと作家像の形成 (2009)
  • Author(s): 加藤雄二
  • Organizer: 日本ポー学会,第2回全国大会
  • Place of Presentation: 慶応大学
• [Presentation] The Galapagos, the Mediterranean, and the Power of Enchantment : Herman Melville's Wandering Narrations in (2009)
  • Author(s): Yuji Kato
  • Organizer: The Encantadas," "at Herman Melville Society's International conference in Jerusalem
  • Place of Presentation: Israel
• [Presentation] History and Culture in the Age of Paranoia : Don Delillo, William Faulkner, and the Postmodern (2008)
  • Author(s): Yuji KATO
  • Organizer: TUFSSeminar in American Literature with Professor Sam Coale
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
  • Year and Date: 2008-12-13
• [Presentation] Nathaniel Hawthorne's Repetitive Double Outsets : Twice-told Tales and the Politics of Psychoanalysis (2008)
  • Author(s): Yuji Kato
  • Organizer: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society's summer Meeting, "Starting Over"
  • Place of Presentation: Bowdoin CollegeBrunswick, Maine, U.S.A.
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-15
• [Presentation] Nathaniel Hawthorne's Repetitive Double Outsets : Twice-toldTales and the Politics of Psychoanalysis (2008)
  • Author(s): Yuji KATO
  • Organizer: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society's Summer Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Maine
• [Presentation] Writing the Heterogeneous South : Incredible Narrations in the Works of Kate Chopin and William Faulkner, (2008)
  • Author(s): Yuji Kato
  • Organizer: at "Faulkner and Chopin" conference at Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State Uni.
• [Presentation] Nathaniel Hawthorne's Double Outsets (2008)
  • Author(s): Yuji Kato
  • Organizer: at Nathaniel Hawthorne Society's summer meeting at Bowdoin College
  • Place of Presentation: Maine US
• [Book] Pawel Jedlzejko and Milton R. Reigelman, eds., Hearts of Darkness : Melville (2010)
  • Author(s): Yuji KATO
  • Publisher: In the Dark Narcissism of Se(a) cret Sh(e) aring Sh(e) aring Se(a) cret : The Eruption of the Other in Joseph Conrad and Herman Melville
• [Book] 第6章"In the Dark Narcissism of Se(a)cret Sh(e)aring/Sh(e)aring Se(a)cret"を担当(Hearts of Darkness : Melville)((Poland, MStudio).のうち (2010)
  • Author(s): Pawel Jedrjeko ed.
  • Publisher: Conrad, and Narrative of Oppression
• [Book] In the Dark Narcissism of Se(a)cret Sh(e)aring/Sh(e)aring Se(a)cret, Hearts of Darkness : Melville, Conrad, and Narratives of Oppression(Yuji Kato) (2010)
  • Author(s): Pawel Jedrzerko eds.
  • Total Pages: 260
  • Publisher: MStudio
• [Remarks]
  • URL: http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/hawthorne/schedule.html