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The American Renaissance and its Background in Intellectual History

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26370271
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

YOSHIKUNI Hiroki  東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (50600186)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywordsアメリカ文学 / 比較文学 / ロマン主義 / 小説 / 個人主義 / ハーマン・メルヴィル / イマヌエル・カント / 美学 / 批評理論 / 物語 / メルヴィル / 米文学 / 国際研究者交流 / 国際情報交換 / アメリカ
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project attempted to read the American Renaissance in relation to the European intellectual history--especially to the transmission of thought from Kant’s critical philosophy to romanticism--focusing on the relationship between the philosophical idea of freedom and the literary genre of the novel and also on the transformation of the former by being linked to the latter. By closely reading the texts of the American Renaissance, it has become clear that because of the American authors’ belated reception of the idea and the genre, which had already been popularized in Europe when they started writing their works, their responses were critical: they read the combination of the two as banality. Rather than totally abandon the idea of freedom, however, they recovered the freshness of the idea of freedom by reinventing a new way to manifest the idea in the sensible sphere of experience.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report

Research Products

(9 results)

All 2017 2016 2015 2014

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results) Presentation (6 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Invited: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Kant with Bartleby: A Fate of Freedom2016

    • Author(s)
      Hiroki Yoshikuni
    • Journal Title

      Nineteenth-Century Literature

      Volume: 71.1 Pages: 37-63

    • DOI

      10.1525/ncl.2016.71.1.37

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Kant with Bartleby: A Fate of Freedom2016

    • Author(s)
      Hiroki Yoshikuni
    • Journal Title

      Nineteenth Century Literature

      Volume: 71

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] 生起、移行、翻訳 : あるいはポール・ド・マンのイデオロギー批判2014

    • Author(s)
      吉国浩哉
    • Journal Title

      表象

      Volume: 8 Pages: 158-172

    • NAID

      40020090645

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] “Meaning of Life” and “Moral of the Story”: Lukacs, Benjamin, and Theories of the Novel2017

    • Author(s)
      Hiroki Yoshikuni
    • Organizer
      Just Theory Lecture Series
    • Place of Presentation
      ニューヨーク州立大学バッファロー校(アメリカ、ニューヨーク州バッファロー)
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-29
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Providence of the Plot: On Marxist Theory of the Novel2017

    • Author(s)
      Hiroki Yoshikuni
    • Organizer
      Northeast Modern Language Association, Annual Conveniton
    • Place of Presentation
      アメリカ、メリーランド州ボルティモア
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-25
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Sublime and the Novel2016

    • Author(s)
      Hiroki Yoshikuni
    • Organizer
      American Comparative Literature Association
    • Place of Presentation
      ハーバード大学(アメリカ、マサチューセッツ州ケンブリッジ)
    • Year and Date
      2016-03-18
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] アメリカン・ルネサンスの美学2015

    • Author(s)
      吉国浩哉
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会
    • Place of Presentation
      立正大学(東京都品川区)
    • Year and Date
      2015-05-23
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Romanticism in Transit: the Idea of “America” in the American Renaissance.2015

    • Author(s)
      吉国浩哉
    • Organizer
      American Comparative Literature Association
    • Place of Presentation
      Seattle, U.S.A.
    • Year and Date
      2015-03-26 – 2015-03-29
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The Knell of Our Welfare, the Chanticleer-note to the Thing: Kant with American Renaissance2014

    • Author(s)
      吉国浩哉
    • Organizer
      Rodolphe Gasche Seminar
    • Place of Presentation
      東京都目黒区駒場 東京大学
    • Year and Date
      2014-11-25
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report

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