Rethinking Revivalism: a conceptual case study in Modern Irish literature

这个项目试图解决一个重要的学术差距，即我们倾向于谈论具体的复兴，而不是奋兴运动本身。这种遗漏使我们无法认识到奋兴运动本身就是一种跨越地理和历史界限的跨学科批判文化实践。在爱尔兰，很少有文化力量能比宗教复兴运动留下更深刻的遗产。然而，“宗教复兴”这个词的意思是指19世纪80年代至20世纪20年代之间的一个短暂的历史时期。然而，就爱尔兰语传统而言，有证据表明，从17世纪早期开始，它的复兴是一个持续的项目，而不是一个单一的事件。比较奋兴运动为爱尔兰盖尔传统提供了一扇窗户，它戏剧性地改变了我们对一场运动的看法，否则这场运动在很大程度上被视为一场政治革命的文化之翼。我们面临的广泛挑战是将奋兴运动定义为一个一般概念，同时尊重其各种表现形式。考虑到这一点，建议我们从爱尔兰奋兴主义的案例研究和概念调查开始，这将有助于建立一个雄心勃勃的比较跨学科项目的职权范围，该项目将询问奋兴主义的概念，并检查其每个应用中出现的共同问题。该项目的第一阶段将通过完成关于爱尔兰复兴主义的专著来实现，该专著将绘制从17世纪到现在的课程，其中将探索爱尔兰复兴主义话语中关键概念的进展。鉴于文学是爱尔兰复兴运动的核心，研究将以文学分析为基础，但与此同时，民间传说、教育、国家政策和其他对复兴运动重要的领域将构成讨论的重要部分。该项目的主要概念主题将是暂时性，物质和精神，综合和连续性，更新和成为，弥赛亚主义和乌托邦主义。本研究的一个关键策略是强调比较奋兴运动可以在不同背景下揭示奋兴运动共性的领域。通过这种方式，专著将考虑17世纪爱尔兰反宗教改革主义传统对当代爱尔兰小说的影响；19世纪爱尔兰的福音派复兴和爱尔兰语复兴；哥特复兴对帕特里克·皮尔斯爱尔兰语复兴运动的影响；国家赞助的爱尔兰民俗委员会和国家主导的苏联中亚口头传统的复兴。除了已出版的文献语库外，还将参考大量的档案材料，如Ó Cadhain Papers， An Gúm Files和最近发布的军事史档案局（Bureau of Military History Files），其中包含36,000页的证人陈述，其中包括大量与盖尔联盟（Gaelic League）和其他尚未用于爱尔兰语言奋兴运动研究的奋兴组织有关的陈述。项目的下一阶段将包括开展一系列研究领导活动，直接从第一阶段开始。这将需要建立研究网络以发展跨学科研究；召开比较奋兴运动跨学科研讨会；透过在非高等教育学院场地举行公开讲座，让公众参与及传播专著的研究结果；制作一部关于复兴主义人物的6集电视纪录片，为两名非学术伙伴提供指导和讲习班；为同事提供指导，为爱尔兰和凯尔特研究研究所协调影响活动，最后，参加阿尔斯特大学的领导力发展培训计划，以增加我的领导力组合，并为申请读者/教授的学术推广计划做准备。

This project seeks to address an important gap in scholarship whereby we tend to speak of specific revivals but not about Revivalism itself. This omission prevents us from recognising Revivalism as an interdisciplinary critical cultural practice in its own right which spans geographical and historical boundaries. In Ireland, few cultural forces have left a deeper legacy than Revivalism yet the word Revival has come to mean one short historical period between 1880s-1920s. Nevertheless, where the Irish language tradition is concerned, the evidence points to a continuous project of revival, evident from the early 17th century onwards rather than to a single event. Comparative Revivalism provides windows onto the Irish Gaelic tradition which dramatically transform our idea of a movement which is otherwise largely seen simply as the cultural wing of a political revolution. The broad challenge before us is to define Revivalism as a generic concept while respecting its various forms of expression. With this in mind, it is proposed that we begin with a case-study and conceptual investigation of Irish Revivalism which will help establish the terms of reference for an ambitious comparative, interdisciplinary project which will interrogate the concept of Revivalism and examine the common issues which arise in each of its applications.This first stage of this project will be achieved through completion of a monograph on Irish Revivalism, charting a course from the 17th century to the present day, in which the progression of the key concepts in Irish Revivalist discourse will be explored. Given that literature is central to Irish Revivalism, the research will be grounded in literary analysis but, at the same time, folklore, education, state policy and other areas of importance to Revivalism will form an essential part of the discussion. Among the chief conceptual themes of the project will be temporality, the material and spiritual, synthesis and continuity, renewal and becoming, messianism and utopianism. A key critical strategy in this study will be to highlight areas where comparative Revivalism can shed new light on the commonality between Revivalism in different contexts. In this way, the monograph will consider the influence of the 17th-century Irish Counter-Reformationist tradition on the contemporary Irish novel; the evangelical revivals and Irish-language revivals of 19-century Ireland; the influence of the Gothic Revival on Patrick Pearse's Irish-language Revivalism; the state-sponsored Irish Folklore Commission and state-led revival of oral tradition in Soviet Central Asia. Besides the corpus of published literature, sources consulted will include a substantial amount of archival material, such as the Ó Cadhain Papers, An Gúm Files and the recently released Bureau of Military History Files containing 36,000 pages of witness statements including a huge number relating to the Gaelic League and other revivalist organisations not yet used in a study of Irish language Revivalism.The next stage of the project will involve undertaking a series of Research Leadership activities directly following from stage one. This will entail research networking to develop interdisciplinary research; the convening of an interdisciplinary workshop on comparative Revivalism; public engagement and dissemination of the monograph findings through public talks in non-HEI venues; presenting of a 6-part TV documentary series on Revivalist figures, shadowing and delivery of workshops for two non-academic partners; mentoring of colleagues and co-ordinating impact activities for the Irish and Celtic Studies Research Institute, and finally, placement on Ulster University's Leadership Development Training scheme with a view to increasing my leadership portfolio and in preparation for an application to the academic promotion scheme to Reader/ Professor.