2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
American Gothic and Contemporary Literary Theory
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20520213
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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 |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
KATO Yuji 東京外国語大学, 大学院・総合国際学研究院, 准教授 (60224549)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2011
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| Keywords | アメリカ文学 / 批評理論 / 比較文学 / ゴシック |
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| Research Abstract |
I discussed and wrote about American Gothic writings and their authors from international perspectives. I spoke and interacted with international scholars at internatiional Herman Melville conference and William Faulkner conference in 2008 ; I sponsored seminars with an American specialist on Nathaniel Hawthorne ; I made presentations at Edgar A. Poe conferences in both Japan and the United States in 2009 and re-examined his significance as the origin of American Gothic ; I participated in Nathaniel Hawthorne conference and Emily Dickinson conference in 2010 and re-examined 19^<th> century American gothic genre ; I cooperated with The Melville Society and published an essay in a collection of essays on Joseph Conrad and Herman Melville in the same year ; I spoke at Herman Melville conference and MLA convention in 2011 and discussed Melville' s significance in contemporary, globalized contexts with foreign scholars
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