2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Mark Twain at the Turn of the Century,1890-1910: On His Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism
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22520225
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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 | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
IGAWA Masago 東北大学, 大学院・国際文化研究科, 名誉教授 (30104730)
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| Research Collaborator |
HIRST Robert,H. Bancroft Library,University of California, Berkeley, Mark Twain Papers and Project, General Editor
FISCHER Victor Bancroft Library,University of California, Berkeley, Mark Twain Papers and Project, Associate Editor
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 米文学 |
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| Research Abstract |
This project focuses on a relatively neglected period in Mark Twain's life and work, and specifically on the period at the turn of the century, 1890-1910. Complex as his last years might be, the picture of his last years I draw here might help readers to see a Mark Twain who is still quite active and not necessarily pessimistic over the future of our race. I discuss his rhetoric of anti-imperialism, mainly in his travelogue Following the Equator (1897) and his story “The Chronicle of Young Satan" (1969). Some conclusions that could be drawn include: (1) Although Twain's humorous style of “associative" and “digressive" storytelling, which he learned from his early years in the West, is still alive, it has been transformed socially and politically. (2) That transformation is the result of a new phase of deep thinking, both social and political.
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