2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Radio Dramas by the BBC Third Programme in Postwar Britain
| Project/Area Number |
24520290
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Doshisha University (2014-2015)
Hiroshima University (2012-2013) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | BBC / ラジオ / ドラマ / 周縁 / 大衆 / 戦争 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The outcomes of this research are summarized into three points. First, exploring radio dramas set in the border countries such as Ireland or Wales, I found that they offer images which are not fit in with newly-founded Englishness. Rather, their localities provide a critique of the cultural centralization exemplified by the Arts Council. Secondly, my research examined that radio dramas were used by the BBC for exploring language with which to talk to mass. In contrast to Modernist elitism that despised the mass, the BBC radio's literary programmes contributed to broadening the possibility of literature. Thirdly, it is found that the BBC produced a number of war radio dramas. World War I famously produced many war poets, whereas there are less poems produced by World War II. The BBC's radio dramas on war made up for poetic depletion, and demonstrated more complicated feelings and emotions.
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| Free Research Field |
英文学
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