The Beginnings of Writing in the Beginnings of the World: Creation and Authorship

该项目考察了前现代文学中创作与作者之间的关系。它最初的直觉与“创造”作为世界的创造和文本的生产的模糊性有关，它打算通过关注创作叙事中作者身份的构建来探索这种词和世界的双重性。它将探索和描述在早期现代和中世纪的文本中，这两种感觉的创造是连接在一起的具体模式。以宾根的希尔德加德、斯宾塞和弥尔顿为中心和范例，背景被扩大到包括不太为人所知的六体和宇宙起源文学，以便深入了解前现代病因学叙事的功能。在这个过程中，我们将检验两个假设：(1)要探索的创作叙事展示了创作和作者创造力是如何以一种诗意的形成方式联系在一起的。(2)从病因学的角度来看，这些关于世界起源、产生和形成的叙述有可能使历史秩序失去合法性，因为它们表明，虽然世界的深层起源超出了人类的掌握，但世界的形成是人为决定的，因此是偶然的，是可以改变的。因此，它们出现在生态批评的先锋书信中。

The project examines the relationship between creation and authorship in premodern litera-ture. Its initial intuition is linked to the ambiguity of ‘creation’ as the creation of a world as well as the production of a text, and it intends to explore this doubleness of word and world by focussing on the construction of authorship in narratives of creation. It will explore and describe the specific modes in which both senses of creation are connected in early modern and medieval texts. With Hildegard of Bingen, Spenser and Milton as central and paradigmatic examples, the context is widened to include lesser-known hexameral and cosmogonic literature in order to gain insight into the functions of premodern etiological narration. In this, two hypotheses will be put to the test: (1) The narratives of creation to be explored show how creation and authorial creativity are connected in a poetically formative manner. (2) Read as etiologies, these narratives of the world’s origin, production and coming into being bear the potential to delegitimize historical order by making evident that, while its deep-time beginnings are beyond human grasp, the becoming of the world is anthropogenically determined, hence contingent and open to change. Thus, they appear as ecocritical avant la lettre.