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A critical history and analysis of (Scottish) Gaelic fiction

（苏格兰）盖尔小说的批判历史和分析

基本信息

批准号：
AH/H00744X/1
负责人：
Moray Watson
金额：
$ 2.97万
依托单位：
University of Aberdeen
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2010 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FH00744X%2F1
关键词：
critical history analysis Scottish Gaelic

项目摘要

My aim in applying for research leave is to allow me to complete a study of the prose fiction of Gaelic Scotland. I began this project in 2007, having done some preliminary work in the area from 2003 onwards. The main outcome of the project will be a single-authored book, to be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2010.This project is the first in-depth analysis of Gaelic fiction. Literary criticism of Gaelic has always concentrated on analysing the poetry, in spite of the gradual emergence of a substantial body of very significant prose literature from the latter half of the twentieth century onwards. Even though critics have been slow to respond to this emerging trend, newer authors have been inspired by it, to the extent that the early twenty-first century has seen more novels published than the entire previous history of the language combined. This project examines both sides of this phenomenon: i.e. why prose fiction has taken so long to flourish but has suddenly burgeoned at an unprecedented rate in the past seven years; and also why critics have been reluctant to engage with it until now. The study provides a framework for understanding the prose literature that has previously been passed over by critics, but also examines the few commentaries and critical works that have been written.To a large degree, Gaelic fiction is only around a century old. It was invented by a coterie of enthusiasts who wished to furnish the language with what they saw as a complete range of modes of literary expression. Their vision was informed by their knowledge of English literature, and their motivation was as much socio-political as it was cultural. This study considers the way a prose writing style developed, tending towards the florid, verbose and old-fashioned manners that characterised the secular prose that had begun to emerge in the nineteenth century. That nineteenth-century writing was heavily influenced by religious writing, and indeed much of it was composed or published by members of the clergy. Simultaneously, keen amateur scholars were in the process of writing down the folklore of the remaining Gaelic heartlands for the first time, in common with like-minded individuals throughout Europe, perhaps especially inspired by the Ossianic adventure. It is striking that the early fiction writers modelled their work stylistically on the religious and didactic paradigms rather than the pacy, popular, and highly-vernacular language of the folk tales. The current study examines some of the reasons for the choices that were made, and also analyses some of the corollaries of these choices.The study will feature analyses of certain key texts, especially some of those that have received less attention than might be expected. There will also be the first critical discussion of the highly-influential periodical Gairm, which ran for fifty years and officially produced two hundred issues.

我申请研究假的目的是让我完成对苏格兰盖尔语散文小说的研究。我在2007年开始了这个项目，从2003年开始在该领域做了一些初步工作。该项目的主要成果将是一本由爱丁堡大学出版社于2010年出版的单行本。盖尔语的文学批评一直集中在分析诗歌上，尽管从世纪后半叶开始逐渐出现了大量非常重要的散文文学。尽管批评家们对这一新兴趋势反应迟缓，但新的作家受到了它的启发，以至于21世纪初出版的小说比整个语言历史的总和还要多。这个项目考察了这一现象的两个方面：即为什么散文小说花了这么长时间才蓬勃发展，但在过去的七年里突然以前所未有的速度蓬勃发展;以及为什么评论家直到现在还不愿意参与其中。这项研究提供了一个框架，了解散文文学，以前已经通过了批评，但也检查了少数评论和批评作品已经书面。在很大程度上，盖尔小说只有大约世纪的历史。它是由一群狂热者发明的，他们希望为这种语言提供他们所认为的完整的文学表达方式。他们的视野来自于他们对英国文学的了解，他们的动机既有文化上的，也有社会政治上的。本研究考察了一种散文写作风格的发展方式，即倾向于华丽、冗长和老式的风格，这些风格是世纪开始出现的世俗散文的特征。19世纪的作品深受宗教作品的影响，事实上，大部分作品都是由神职人员撰写或出版的。与此同时，热心的业余学者也在第一次写下盖尔人心脏地带的民间传说，这与欧洲各地志同道合的人一样，也许特别受到奥西安冒险的启发。令人吃惊的是，早期的小说作家在文体上模仿宗教和说教的范式，而不是民间故事的节奏，流行和高度方言化的语言。本研究探讨了作出这些选择的一些原因，并分析了这些选择的一些必然结果，本研究将重点分析某些关键文本，特别是那些受到的关注可能比预期少的文本。也将有高度影响力的期刊Gairm的第一次批判性的讨论，运行了五十年，正式产生了两百个问题。