The Discovery of Irish Folklore
The Discovery of Irish Folklore
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爱尔兰民间传说的发现
DOI：
10.1353/nhr.2006.0069
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2006
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通讯作者：
Anne Markey
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作者：
Anne Markey
任何对爱尔兰文学感兴趣的人，无论是用爱尔兰语还是英语，都会熟悉民俗的概念。对于那些知识局限于英语作品的人来说，这个概念往往仍然模糊不清，因为在20世纪世纪，爱尔兰民间传说的收集、研究和讨论主要是通过爱尔兰语进行的。由此产生的学术专业化体系导致了一个持续的倾向，在批评家和其他评论家，闭塞爱尔兰民间文学艺术和爱尔兰英语写作之间的关系？尽管在20世纪后半叶，一些重要的研究已经调查了与爱尔兰民间传说有关的盖尔传统和盎格鲁-爱尔兰文学传统之间的连续性。[1]然而，学术界内外的许多人仍然对什么是爱尔兰民间传说，以及它与文学的关系是什么，或者应该是什么感到困惑。虽然这个概念已经熟悉的古董感兴趣的流行传统和讲英语的阅读公众，已被介绍给埃德加泰勒的翻译格里高利'儿童和豪斯姆？民间文学艺术一词在1823年首次出现，直到1846年，英国文物学家威廉·约翰·索恩（William John Thorns）以安布罗斯·默顿（Ambrose Merton）为笔名，在英国期刊《雅典娜》（The Athenaeum）上发表的一封信中首次使用了这个词。为了使英国的学术研究与德国的格林兄弟的工作保持一致，索恩斯提出了“一个很好的撒克逊化合物，民间传说？人民的知识”指“的是奥登时代的礼仪、习俗、迷信、民谣、谚语等。"桑斯为失去了大量这样的材料而惋惜，他寻求帮助，"收集剩下的为数不多的穗，散落在我们的祖先本可以收获丰厚收成的田野上.“2这封信提出
Anyone interested in Irish literature, whether in the Irish or the English lan guage, will be familiar with the concept of folklore. For those whose knowledge is confined to works in the English language, the concept often remains nebu lous because the collection, study, and discussion of Irish folklore during the twentieth century have largely been undertaken through the medium of Irish. The resultant system of academic specialization has led to a persistent tenden cy, among critics and other commentators, to occlude the relationship between Irish folklore and Irish writing in English?though during the latter half of the twentieth century a few significant studies have investigated continuities between the Gaelic tradition, associated with Irish folklore, and the Anglo-Irish literary tradition.1 Nevertheless, within and outside academic circles, many remain confused about what constitutes Irish folklore, and what its relationship is, or should be, to literature. Although the concept was already familiar to antiquaries interested in pop ular traditions and to an English-speaking reading public that had been intro duced to Edgar Taylor's translation of Grimms' Kinder-und Hausm?rchen in 1823, the term "folklore" was not coined until 1846 when the English antiquary William John Thorns, under the pseudonym Ambrose Merton, first used the term in a letter published in the English periodical, The Athenaeum. In an effort to align English scholarship with the work of the Brothers Grimm in Germany, Thorns proposed "a good Saxon compound, Folk-Lore?the Lore of the People" to denote "the manners, customs observances, superstitions, ballads, proverbs, &c of the olden time." Lamenting the loss of much such material, Thorns sought aid "in garnering the few ears which are remaining, scattered over that field from which our forefathers might have gathered a goodly crop."2 The letter raises