Voyaging Between Adventure and Resolution

在冒险与决心之间航行

• 批准号: 391876098
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Robert Stockhammer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (Komparatistik)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/391876098?language=en
• 关键词: Voyaging; Between; Adventure; Resolution

The project sets out to investigate the textual means by which a voyage may be qualified as an adventure, hence what may be called the 'adventurousness' of a voyage. Like the term 'aventure' (Old French), the term 'voyage' is ambiguous, signifying a type of event as well as a narrative account of this event. In philological inquiries, the focus must be on the latter. With reference to Ricardou's structuralist formula (which, however, must also be questioned), we might say: an "écriture d'une aventure" doesn't necessarily result from any specific events depicted, even though these may well be 'adventurous' enough; it is based rather on certain writing procedures, i.e. an "aventure d'une écriture" (Problèmes du nouveau roman 111). The project starts out with a present-day perspective, but aims to reach back to classical antiquity. Within this larger frame, however, it concentrates on two case studies, focusing on the 18th and 19th centuries respectively (historical focus), on the Pacific Ocean (geographical focus), and on sea ventures and ships (as means of travel). The corpus comprises very different types of texts, all of which concern particular involvements of writing in voyaging, what may be called 'ship-writing-connections', produced in the course of two voyages: James Cook's second circumnavigation (1772-75), on board the 'Resolution' and the 'Adventure' - the ships which lend the project its title -, and Herman Melville's independent travels in the Pacific Ocean (1841-44). The working term 'ship-writing-connections' comprises texts in the strict sense (log books, journals, various travel accounts, novels, an epic poem, etc.), but also smaller linguistic elements like ship names, or graphic artefacts like maps. Investigating their discursive functions, the project will propose a catalogue of textual features that produce the 'adventurousness' of a given text, as an identifiable category, based on analyzing various linguistic units: (a) word, (b) syntax, (c) text segment, (d) type of text, and (e) relation to intertexts.

该项目着手调查的文本手段，航行可能被限定为一个冒险，因此可能被称为“冒险”的航行。与“冒险”（古法语）一词一样，“航行”一词也很模棱两可，既表示一种事件类型，也表示对该事件的叙述。在语言学研究中，重点必须放在后者。参考李嘉图的结构主义公式（然而，这也必须受到质疑），我们可能会说：“一个“冒险”并不一定是由任何描述的特定事件产生的，即使这些事件可能足够“冒险”；它是以某些写作程序为基础的，例如，一篇“文青冒险”（《新罗马问题》第111期）。该项目从现代的角度出发，但旨在回到古典时代。然而，在这个更大的框架内，它集中在两个案例研究上，分别关注18世纪和19世纪（历史焦点），太平洋（地理焦点）和海上冒险和船只（作为旅行手段）。语料库包含非常不同类型的文本，所有这些文本都涉及航海写作的特殊参与，可以称为“船舶写作联系”，在两次航行过程中产生：詹姆斯·库克的第二次环球航行（1772-75），在“决议”号和“冒险”号上-这艘船赋予了这个项目的名称-以及赫尔曼·梅尔维尔在太平洋上的独立旅行（1841-44）。工作术语“船舶书写联系”包括严格意义上的文本（航海日志、日志、各种旅行记录、小说、史诗等），但也包括较小的语言元素，如船舶名称，或图形人工制品，如地图。研究它们的话语功能，该项目将提出一个文本特征目录，产生给定文本的“冒险性”，作为一个可识别的类别，基于分析不同的语言单位：(a)单词，(b)语法，(c)文本片段，(d)文本类型，(e)与互文的关系。