The senses and their understanding by the medieva l laity is an exciting arena in which many authors of the golden age of Middle English vernacular literature exercised their exegetical ability and literary craftsmanship. This book examines the representation of the divine by the anonymous fourteenth-century Pearl-poet, through a close reading of his three “scriptural” Middle English poems, Cleanness, Patience and Pearl, against the background of the culture of sensorium in late medieva l England.
14世紀中古英語頭韻復興運動中的翹楚詩人“珍珠”的全部作品僅有一份手稿存世(大英圖書館柯頓·尼祿A.x手稿)。本書立足于對《珍珠》手稿中三首基于經(jīng)文的長詩(《清潔》《堅忍》《珍珠》)之中古英語原文的訓詁和細讀,研究“珍珠”詩人對神性的理解,并探討詩人對中世紀感官文化及相關思想史背景的反芻。 The senses and their understanding by the medieva l laity is an exciting arena in which many authors of the golden age of Middle English vernacular literature exercised their exegetical ability and literary craftsmanship. This book examines the representation of the divine by the anonymous fourteenth-century Pearl-poet, through a close reading of his three “scriptural” Middle English poems, Cleanness, Patience and Pearl, against the background of the culture of sensorium in late medieva l England. In this book, individual corporeal senses and general ideas about sensory perception will be investigated, as well as the non-physical senses. By bringing the Pearl-poet’s treatment of the sensorium-both of God and of humans-into the focus of attention, Dr Bao illustrates how human interpretation of sense-perceptible signs, and their decision to regulate sensory experience accordingly, play a significant role in the poet’s “vernacular theology”, and in the spiritual life of late medieva l English laity.
14世紀中古英語頭韻復興運動中的翹楚詩人“珍珠”的全部作品僅有一份手稿存世(大英圖書館柯頓·尼祿A.x手稿)。本書立足于對《珍珠》手稿中三首基于經(jīng)文的長詩(《清潔》《堅忍》《珍珠》)之中古英語原文的訓詁和細讀,研究“珍珠”詩人對神性的理解,并探討詩人對中世紀感官文化及相關思想史背景的反芻。 無論在理論或實踐層面,感官及對感官認知的態(tài)度在中世紀人道德、宗教、情感模式的形成中都扮演關鍵的角色,深入研究感官文化的一個重要途徑就是文學作品。本書每一章節(jié)聚焦《珍珠》手稿的一部作品,研究其中示例人物如何通過規(guī)范自己的感官經(jīng)驗,將“抑肉揚靈”的古典感官論中被貶抑的“身體感官”轉化為一種通往救贖的路徑。本書還將通過探討“內(nèi)感官”“精神感官”“神秘感官”等概念在文本中的呈現(xiàn),比較中世紀感官論與現(xiàn)代感官論的關鍵差異。作者在語文學—文學解讀的基礎上,同時考察8—15世紀手抄本中對感官的圖像學表述,試圖梳理并書寫一種形成于圖文互動過程中的文學感官史。 14世紀中古英語頭韻復興運動中的翹楚詩人“珍珠”的*作品僅有一份手稿存世(大英圖書館柯頓·尼祿A.x手稿)。本書立足于對《珍珠》手稿中三*基于經(jīng) 文的長詩(《清潔》《堅忍》《珍珠》)之中古英語原文的訓詁和細讀,研究“珍珠”詩人對神性的理解,并探討詩人對中世紀感官文化及相關思想史背景的 反芻。
無論在理論或實踐層面,感官及對感官認知的態(tài)度在中世紀人道德、宗教、情感模式的形成中都扮演關鍵的角色,深入研究感官文化的一個重要途徑就是文學作品 。本書每一章節(jié)聚焦《珍珠》手稿的一部作品,研究其中示例人物如何通過規(guī)范自己的感官經(jīng)驗,將“抑肉揚靈”的古典感官論中被貶抑的“身體感官”轉化 為一種通往救贖的路徑。本書還將通過探討“內(nèi)感官”“精神感官”“神秘感官”等概念在文本中的呈現(xiàn),比較中世紀感官論與現(xiàn)代感官論的關鍵差異。 作者在語文學—文學解讀的基礎上,同時考察8—15世紀手抄本中對感官的圖像學表述,試圖梳理并書寫一種形成于圖文互動過程中的文學感官史。
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