OKAMOTO Kazuko    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Arts and Letters    Position   Professor
Research Period	2007～2009
Research Topic	The meaning of the childhood in modern German philology and art theory-from the romanticism to Walter Benjamin.
Research Type	KAKENHI Research
Consignor	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Program Type	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
KAKENHI Grant No.	19720067
Responsibility	Representative Researcher
Representative Person	OKAMOTO Kazuko
Details	This study has indicated that there is a relationship between the image of childhood in the works of Clemens Brentano, a romantic author, and the one of a modern critic Walter Benjamin. Both of them regard children as a figur which has lost the paradise and their language as marked by negativity. Brentano's image of the child is different from so-called "romantic child", namely a symbol of sacredness. It represents a pioneering modell for the concept of the child and language in modern literature theory.