Description
The purpose of this research team is to offer a vision, through the letters and from the perspectives offered by the critique of the imaginary, of the determining influence that Japanese culture has had on English and French traveling writers of the century XIX.
The main objectives proposed by the group are:
A) Scientific objectives:
- Analysis of the aspects related to the influence of the Japanese imaginary in the travel books of the English and French writers who toured Japan in the 19th century.
- Identification, classification and interpretation of the mythical-symbolic images of said imaginary in the works of these writers.
- I collate the most relevant elements of the imaginary of Japanese oriental culture and that of the English 19th century French and French traveling writers, in order to establish the existing concomitances and divergences.
B) Academic objectives:
- Carrying out an interdisciplinary work in which the approaches and methods of literary criticism and linguistics applied to translation concur with reference to Eastern studies, with those of English and French philologies.
- Obtaining subsidies from the European Union, national, provincial and U.V.A. programs, as well as R&D projects subsidized by the M.E.C, and from those of the Junta de Castilla y León.
- Obtaining subsidies for the organization of International Congresses, International Seminars, courses and scientific meetings, which contribute to promoting research, training researchers and providing scholarships in the lines of research proposed by the GIR, thus involving society with the group in contact with it.
- Direction of doctoral theses and research work related to the lines of research opened by the group through the different researchers that comprise it.
- Contribute to generate bibliographic funds related to these topics, in order to collaborate in the provision of a library dedicated to oriental studies, mainly studies on Japan, at the University of Valladolid.
- Strengthen inter-university relations with Europe and Asia through the agreements that the University of Valladolid has signed with international universities, whose researchers already collaborate with this group, and the establishment of new agreements with those Japanese universities with which they do not yet exist.
