OKAMOTO Kazuko    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Arts and Letters    Position   Professor
Research Period	2010/04～2014/03
Research Topic	Describability of early childhood in modern German literature
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.	22720129
Responsibility	Representative Researcher
Representative Person	OKAMOTO Kazuko
Details	My research verified that the childhood, a kind of nonverbal sphere, becomes describable, when it is described as language acquisition. My research achievements are focused on following three points. 1. Analysis of Walter Benjamins oeuvre: In his works, the modern children are surrounded by many things from material culture. They acquire language by mimicking and collecting them. 2. Analysis of the child in Clemens Brentanos works: The child is an existence which are just in learning language. 3. The translation of Benjamins works. With this experience, I talked on the translation and reception of Benjamin in Japan at a symposium held in Berlin by Walter Benjamin archive.