2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Rachel Carson and Her Place in American Nature Writing
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18520211
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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 | Kochi University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAMIOKA Katsumi Kochi University, Faculty of the Humanities, Professor (10135973)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2007
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| Keywords | Rachel Carson / Henry Beston / Silent S ring / Sense of Wonder / nature writing / environmental Literature |
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| Research Abstract |
Rachel Carson has been recognized as a significant scientist who wrote Silent Spring, but now she has been given her place in American green tradition, especially in American nature writing. During my research years 2006-2007, I wrote two essays and gave three lectures and one presentation. In a book Rachel Carson (Minerva Shobo, 2007) which I coauthored, I wrote an essay "Rachel Carson and her place in American nature writing." Ever since the days of Thoreau and Muir, American nature writers have fought against the heedless destruction of the landscape. Carson is one of them and that she is a pioneer of environmental justice, another aspect of nature writing in USA.
My second essay "Rachel Carson and Henry Beston" (Research Reports, 2007) makes it clear that Carson has been affected by Beston's The Outermost House. It is evident that she has shared with him not only his love of nature, but also his environmental ethics. Carson seems to have learned from Beston the importance of the poetic insight and the ecological vision.
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