2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Two Types of "Abstraction" in T.S.Eliot's Poetry : Constructivism and Universality
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16520206
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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 | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAGAHATA Akitoshi Nagoya University, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Professor, 国際言語文化研究科, 教授 (90208041)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | T.S.Eliot / abstraction / holistic integration |
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| Research Abstract |
The primary purposes of this study have been to reinterpret the poetry of a modernist American poet T.S.Eliot in the light of "abstraction," and to elucidate the meaning of his re-presenting the voices of the dead in relation to his view of "abstraction." For these purposes, I have analyzed the references to "abstraction" and "death" in his poetical and prose works and correspondences, and did a research into the typescript versions of Eliot's early poems, especially the comments left on them by Pound and Eliot, at the New York Public Library.
The research and analysis mentioned above has shown the following : (1) Eliot, like Pound, had the tendency of viewing "abstraction" negatively, as seen in his Ph.D dissertation ; (2) his early poetic and critical works, however, demonstrate his interest in the practice of constructivist abstraction, which is akin to Pound's "ideogrammic abstraction" ; (3) Eliot's acute interest in the metaphysical and in the life after death, in conjunction with his religious belief, is considered to have incited his interest in universalist, organicist and holistic "integration" ; and (4) his interest in the metaphysical was maintained, even after the waning of his interest in constructivist abstraction, and became one of the nuclei of his later poetry and criticism.
A report was written based on the result of this study. And an article on the relationship between Eliot and Pound was published as part of Dove Sta Memoria : Ezra Pound and the Poetry of the 20th Century. It should also be reminded that part of the achievements will be published in the form of a scholarly article separately.
Future research plans in relation to this study include a comprehensive study on American modernist poetry and abstraction, which will combine the achievements of the present study, the studies on abstraction in Stevens, Stein, Pound and Crane, as well as other modernist poets.
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Research Products
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