2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Water, Economy, and Gender/Sexuality in Poems of Duck and Collier
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23652060
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Gifu University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 18世紀英文学 / 農民詩 / 水表象 / フォルマリズム / 社会・経済構造 / 性－ジェンダー |
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| Research Abstract |
Mary Collier's poetic voice, or her plebeian-cultural imagination as "a washer woman," is found out to be "doubly" alienated; first from her seemingly "opposing" male, Stephen Duck as a thresher, who belongs to the same social class as hers, common labouring class, and then from their cultural opponent, Alexander Pope, who clearly belongs to the gentry/squirarchy as a representative of 18th-Century polite culture.
This double alienation of her can be shown through our analyses of their several poems concerning the aspects of rural society at those times; the poems are interpreted culturally and socially by comparison of their particular clusters of "water" imagery, together of their sex/sexuality/gender ideologies, in their poetic discourses.
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