2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Postimperial English Culture and the Long Twentieth Century
| Project/Area Number |
20520214
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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 Gakugei University |
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Principal Investigator |
OTA Nobuyoshi 東京学芸大学, 教育学部, 教授 (90233139)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2012
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| Keywords | ポストインペリアル / 長い20世紀 / リベラリズム・ヘリテージ / 批評理論 / 映 像文化 / ブルームズベリー・グループ / アソシエーション |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project has shown that the present English culture, itself deeply embedded in and actively engaged with the various developments of globalization and neo-imperialism, cannot be explained enough by the current interpretative schemes of the political conservatism (“post-imperial melancholy”) and the liberal and humanistic multiculturalism. Rather, taking into consideration the narrative scheme of the long twentieth century, the more adequate interpretation of postimperial English culture, I have argued, is explored in its transatlantic expansions of the liberalism of Bloomsbury Group, English heritage films, and literary/cultural theory, in which history of culture of empire is variously traced in meta-diachronic or genealogical ways.
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