2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Modernism and Keio University around the Turn of the Century
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15K02349
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Keio University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | 横浜正金銀行 / 南方熊楠 / 夏目漱石 / 小泉信三 / 野口米次郎 / 近代化 / エズラ・パウンド / モダニズム |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project has consistently focused on the transnational literary and cultural negotiations between Euro-American Modernists and Japanese Modernizers, with special emphasis on the figures like Fukuzawa Yukichi and Noguchi Yonejiro. From this perspective this year I could publish a very ambitious article “Transnational American Studies: or, Trans-Atlantic, Trans-Pacific, Trans-Chronological” l in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Keio American Studies(April), delivered a paper on comparative modernism at the international symposium sponsored by Science Council of Japan(July), and discussed the theoretical dimension of World Literature at an interdisciplinary symposium held by Cross-Lingual Network(March 2021). Although COVID-19 prevented me from conducting an extensive research in the United States, the development of ZOOM made it easier for us to have international discussions with Euro-American and Australasian specialists in the field of Modernism and Modernization.
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| Free Research Field |
アメリカ研究
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
明治維新以来、我が国は世界雄飛によって欧米の文物を積極的に吸収することで近代化を図りそのモダニズム文学や芸術を促進してきたように思われてきた。しかし、本研究が明かすのは、たとえば野口米次郎のように、慶應義塾在学中に渡米して英語詩人となり英国詩壇の巨匠 W・ B・イエイツらに高く評価され、モダニズムの旗手エズラ・パウンドらに決定的影響を与えるに至った逸材の存在である。近代化もその批判的言説としてのモダニズムも一方通行ではなく、欧米との双方向的な関係を結んでいたこと、そうした回路を円滑に機能させた横浜正金銀行のような国際的金融機関が一定の役割を果たしたことへの注目は、本研究独自の学術的視点である。
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