Genealogy of the Aesthetics of Interwar Galician Jewish Writers and Artists and Their Approaches to Modernism

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23720174
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: European literature (English literature excluded)
• Research Institution: Nagoya University of Foreign Studies (2014); The University of Tokyo (2011-2013)
• Principal Investigator: KATO Ariko 名古屋外国語大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (90583170)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ポーランド文学 / ガリツィア / 両大戦間期 / モダニズム / リヴィウ / イディッシュ語文学 / ポーランド・ユダヤ人 / 中東欧美術

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research project, I investigated the genealogy of the aesthetics of Jewish writers, whose work is in Polish and Yiddish, and artists of Eastern Galicia who lived during the interwar period, a time when the region―a former district of the Austrian Empire―belonged to independent Poland. Exploring their approaches to modernism, I also reconstructed their activities as modernist movements of Galicia. Researchers have reconsidered Central European modernism since the 2000s. However, the former Eastern Galicia and its central city, Lviv, which has belonged to Ukraine since the end of World War II, are often omitted from the map of modernism. I proposed, therefore, to revise the map to include Lviv.

Free Research Field

人文学