2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Possibility of Community without Community: Rethinking Joseph Conrad's Later Novels
Project/Area Number |
24520301
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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 | The University of Shiga Prefecture |
Principal Investigator |
Kaoru Yamamoto 滋賀県立大学, 人間文化学部, 准教授 (50347431)
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Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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Keywords | ジョウゼフ・コンラッド / 後期小説 / 歴史小説 / 大陸の思想 / ジャック・デリダ / ハンナ・アーレント / ジャン=リュック・ナンシー / 共同体 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Arguing against the long established image of Conrad as the subjective moral impressionist, this project demonstrated that ‘strange fraternity’ beyond the classic idea of community sometimes takes place in Conrad’s texts. In order to make this argument, it read Conrad along with Continental thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Jean Luc-Nancy and Hannah Arendt, whose remoteness from the Anglo-American literary criticism, from Conrad criticism in particular, makes this project distinctive, in its offering of a new, interdisciplinary reading especially of Conrad’s neglected, later works. Some of my plans to think Conrad's unique notion of community in terms of 'Union of Lublin', or the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, remain untouched, but they will be left for my future research.
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Free Research Field |
英文学
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