2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Weakened Masculinity in the British Novels of the Period of the Decline of the British Empire -- A Case Study of Rudyard Kipling
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25580066
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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 | Tokyo University of Science |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | キプリング / 男性性 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project focused on the works of Rudyard Kipling and his contemporaries with the aim of (1) shedding light on their unmasculine characters, (2)investigating these character functions in the stories and (3) examining the reason why Kipling and others deal with such characters who are undoubtedly against the idealized heroes in the age of Imperialism.
Through an intensive reading of their works along with carefully researching major previous studies and their biographies, the project successfully revealed the predicament of the authors living between the age of the decline of the British Empire and thriving Imperialism. It is higly possible that the authors injected their unmasculine temperament which needed to be supressed by the pressures of the age into their characters. The shared techniques by which the authors described the many unmasculine characters which this project exmined, seem to support the idea that such descriptions were effected by the pressures of the time.
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| Free Research Field |
イギリス文学
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