2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Influence and Effect of European Culture on 19th Century New England Literature
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17520212
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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 |
ヨーロッパ語系文学
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| Research Institution | Kansai University |
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Principal Investigator |
IRIKO Fumiko Kansai University, Faculty of Letters, Professor (80151695)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Keywords | Nathaniel Hawthorne / The Scarlet Letter / Renaissanc / Visual Arts / Birthmark / Needlework / Ideal City / Pentagon |
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| Research Abstract |
For the past three years I have investigated in the context of the Renaissance history of ideas, the extent of the influence of the European culture on the growth of literature in New England, and the way the influence succeeded in establishing, in Hawthorne's literature, a transatlantic viewpoint whereby America and Europe can be viewed in a broad unified vision. This is a further development from my previous research project that had taken shape in the publication of Hawthorne ・<The Scarlet Letter>・ Tapestry (2004), and is tantamount to a re-examination of the meaning of European Renaissance iconographic elements, which apparently remained irrelevant to the American puritanical ethos but which, in my view, unmistakably gained infiltration deep into Hawthorne's literary texts. As the result of this new research, a book entitled The American Renaissance and Visual Arts (2006) was issued, myself as its co-editor, and my own contribution to this volume is a discussion of a Hawthorne's short story, Birthmark, which makes a cross analysis of the mystical phrase included in it, 'a little red hand,' in the context of the Renaissance heraldry. Another book which I co-edited is a collection of essays The Power of Image and the Power of Word-English Renaissance and American Renaissance (2007), whose publication was enabled by the Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results, and my contribution to this volume is an essay entitled "Noble Needlework-the Genealogy of Hester Prynne," a historical elucidation of the significance of Hester's embroidery and sewing in the light of Tudor Masques in England. Previous to this publication came out of my own book, Ideal City of America (2006), a research cosely tangential to my own study of Hawthorne and historically tracing the growth and development of the wish and hope of American city planners as they concerned themselves with the traditional European notion of Ideal City.
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[Book] アメリカの理想都市2006
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入子 文子
Total Pages
240
Publisher
関西大学出版部(関西大学研究成果出版補助金)
Description
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