| 研究実績の概要 |
This year I completed the Cancer Poetry research project that I began in April 2012. This year I had an article accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, on the representation of leukaemia in the work of Philip Hodgins. The article discusses the ways in which the poet, diagnosed with a terminal form of this disease, attempts to find ethical metaphors for his condition. The main focus of my research this year has been the completion of a monograph, Cancer Poetry, which is due to be published in hardcover by Palgrave Macmillan in September 2015. This book examines the representation of cancer in the work of British, Irish, American, and Australasian poets. This is the first book-length study of cancer poetry. The themed chapters offer close readings of the representational strategies of poets writing about spousal cancer, parental cancer, breast cancer, terminal and non-terminal cancer, analysing to what extent poetry can bring this disease to order, and offer solace for those suffering or mourning. The book concludes with analysis of the differing abilities of poets to separate from the disease, to purify their poetic forms from the contaminating physiological forms of cancer.
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