Büchner’s Animals: A Bestiary

毕希纳的动物：动物寓言

• 批准号: 509688875
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Roland Borgards
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Deutsche Literatur und ihre Didaktik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/509688875?language=en
• 关键词: chner; Animals; Bestiary

In Büchner’s short work there are remarkably many animals to be found. Animals are mentioned explicitly nearly 250 times, with altogether one hundred different animal species being mentioned. These animals enable a simultaneously coherent and differentiated field of questions to be bound to Büchner’s work, in which elements of anthropology, political theory, Species Politics and aesthetics meet: Through these animals Büchner’s texts reflect on the insecure position of the human, the violent mechanisms of social hierarchies and the politicisation of the biological and its aesthetic - in particular, grotesque - stagings. Büchner does not present these questions as an elaborate theory, rather scatters them throughout his varied animal terms and species within his literary texts. The intended project aims to collect these scattered insinuations within one integrative study, yet by so doing dedicate suitable attention to each of Büchner’s particular animal mentions. The format of the Bestiary aims towards this concept of unity in variety, with the animals found in Büchner’s works to be individually interpreted across in 83 entries from A wie Affe (Eng: A for Ape) to Z wie Zweifüßler (Eng: Bipeds) and brought together within a monograph in an attempt at completeness. This undertaking is on one hand anchored within the field of Büchner research. In this way it is linked to the tradition of annotation of the Marburger Büchner Ausgabe (MBA 2000-2013) as well as to the cultural studies and epistemological studies approaches to Büchner that have emerged within the last 20 years. On the other hand, the undertaking is situated within the framework of Cultural and Literary Animal Studies. In this way it is linked to a new research paradigm which established itself with its own specific discourse and set of theories and methods within the last 10 years. Thus, the proposed project ultimately aims towards bringing together two otherwise widely differentiated fields: Author studies and Animal Studies. The project can make use of a comprehensive body of previous research of the PI. With regards to Büchner, there are, among others a handbook, a monograph, a collected volume and 15 essays to make use of, and with regards to Animal Studies a handbook, three collected volumes and 83 essays of which five have a special focus of animals in the works of Georg Büchner. In these five essays, as well as in presentations and lecture scripts from three semesters, 42 of the 83 planned entries have already been drafted; the preparatory work (research, argumentation) for the remaining 41 entries is already complete.

在比希纳的这部短篇作品中，动物的数量之多令人瞩目，其中明确提到动物的次数接近250次，总共提到了100种不同的动物。这些动物使一个同时连贯和有区别的问题领域与布希纳的作品联系在一起，其中人类学、政治理论、物种政治学和美学的元素相遇：通过这些动物，布希纳的文本反思了人类的不安全地位、社会等级制度的暴力机制以及生物及其美学的政治化--特别是怪诞的阶段。布希纳并没有把这些问题作为一个复杂的理论来提出，而是把它们分散在他的文学作品中的各种动物术语和物种中。这个计划的目的是在一个综合研究中收集这些分散的暗示，但这样做会对Büchner提到的每一种特定动物给予适当的关注。《动物寓言集》的格式旨在实现多样性中的统一概念，在Büchner的作品中发现的动物被单独解释为83个条目，从A wie Affe（英语：A for Ape）到Z wie Zweifüßler（英语：Z wie Zweifüßler），并在一本专著中汇集在一起，试图完整。这项工作一方面是在Büchner研究领域内进行的。通过这种方式，它与Marburger Büchner Ausgabe（MBA 2000-2013）的注释传统以及过去20年中出现的Büchner的文化研究和认识论研究方法有关。另一方面，这项事业是位于文化和文学动物研究的框架内。通过这种方式，它与一种新的研究范式相联系，这种范式在过去10年中以自己的特定话语和一套理论和方法建立起来。因此，该项目的最终目标是将两个差异很大的领域结合在一起：作者研究和动物研究。该项目可以利用PI以前研究的综合体。关于Büchner，有一本手册，一本专著，一本文集和15篇论文可供使用，关于动物研究，有一本手册，三本文集和83篇论文，其中五篇特别关注Georg Büchner作品中的动物。在这五篇论文中，以及三个学期的演讲和演讲稿中，83个计划中的42个已经起草;其余41个条目的准备工作（研究，论证）已经完成。