2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The New Republic and and Intellectual crosscurrents of the 1920s and 1930s
Project/Area Number |
24520298
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Literature in English
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Research Institution | Tokyo Metropolitan University |
Principal Investigator |
YOSHIDA Tomonao 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (40305404)
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Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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Keywords | アメリカ文学 / ロスト・ジェネレーション / モダニズム |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Placing particular emphasis on Malcolm Cowley's early career in the 1920s and 30s, this study provided a compact survey of some intellectual lives of the "lost generation" American writers in the decades of great transition. My attention was especially focused to his relationship with Edmund Wilson, Cowley's elder colleague at the New Republic magazine in the early 1930s, and Kenneth Burke, a childhood friend of Cowley's and one of the most unique American "self-made" men of philosophical ideas. Among a few ramifications of the research was Japanese translation of selected chapters of Cowley's autobiographical chronicle of the "dirty thirties," The Dream of the Golden Mountains (1989). Translation of the whole book is now in progress.
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Free Research Field |
英米・英語圏文学
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