Sterne Digital Library

斯特恩数字图书馆

• 批准号: AH/S002154/1
• 负责人: Helen Williams
• 金额: $ 25.79万
• 依托单位: Northumbria University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS002154%2F1
• 关键词: Sterne; Digital; Library

How we think about literary history has typically been shaped by what we think the 'important' books are, and who wrote them. Although scholars have sought to challenge ideas of canonicity by asserting the place of 'lesser' works - those produced by marginal groups, for instance, or which do not make significant claims on what we deem to be 'good' literature - these recuperations have often been positioned in opposition to so-called canonical works. A more revealing approach to how literary cultures have flourished in the past can be shaped by considering the symbiotic relations between apparently 'important' and 'lesser' works as realised through the dynamic processes of adaptation. Creatively recycling a popular text into new forms, media and modes (the visual, performance, material culture) invigorates the inherent connections and differences between the marginal and the central in stimulating new ways. The processes of literary adaptation are deep-rooted and hold many significant literary examples, from Philip Sidney to J.K. Rowling. Yet eighteenth-century readers exuberantly refashioned texts into alternative artistic forms against the back-drop of an emergent celebrity culture and a rapidly expanding book trade. Popular works in this period enjoyed a lively, reciprocal relationship with the adaptations they inspired. Texts became substance for public consumption and regurgitation in new forms, as readers turned creators by producing their own versions of famous works. Laurence Sterne (1713-68) was one of the most popular and successful writers of his day. His idiosyncratic novels, 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman' (1759-67) and 'A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy' (1768), were wildly successful and inspired a host of 'Sterneana': creative responses in word, image, and performance. Whilst other popular texts from this period inspired creativity, none experienced adaptation as prolific or diverse as Sterne's. Sterne's first readers found his fiction to be strikingly 'novel' in every sense, from 'Tristram Shandy's' erratic story-telling, playful typography, and bawdry, to 'A Sentimental Journey's' ambiguous mixture of erotic humour and touching pathos. Both novels generated sequels, imitations, continuations, song, drama, and visual and material culture at home and abroad; 'Tableau Sentimental de la France' by 'Yoryck' (1792), for instance, uses Sterne's sympathetic traveller to critique post-Revolutionary France. Sterne continues to fascinate readers: his books have never gone out of print; there is a steady flow of visitors to his home, Shandy Hall; artists, writers, and musicians still produce their own creative interpretations of his idiosyncratic works. Experimental visual representation of narrative was pioneered by Sterne and abounds in Sterneana. The SDL will be the first digital resource to experiment with digitally encoding visual narrative like engraved lines, white space and non-verbal typographic marks. The main aim of this project is to use 'Sterneana' as a case study for examining the dynamic culture of eighteenth-century adaptation. Its objectives are to create the Sterne Digital Library, a digital resource combining Sterne's fiction with lesser-known and hitherto marginalised Sterneana, allowing users to search across them and identify their synergies and explore the wider implications afterlives hold in literary culture. It will be illuminated by explanatory texts compiled by world-leading scholars which introduce, elucidate, and encourage new routes towards exploring it. Hosted on Cambridge Digital Library, an open-access platform, it will bring new audiences to treasures of Cambridge University Library (CUL) and the Laurence Sterne Trust at Shandy Hall (LST) that are unmatched in number or scope.

我们对文学史的看法通常取决于我们认为哪些书是重要的，以及作者是谁。尽管学者们试图通过断言“次要”作品的地位来挑战正典的观念--例如，那些由边缘群体创作的作品，或者那些并没有对我们认为是“好的”文学提出重大主张的作品--但这些休养生息往往被定位为与所谓的正典作品对立。一种更能揭示文学文化在过去是如何蓬勃发展的方法，可以通过考虑通过动态的适应过程实现的表面上的“重要的”和“次要的”作品之间的共生关系来塑造。创造性地将流行文本循环利用成新的形式、媒体和模式(视觉、表演、物质文化)，激活了边缘和中心之间的内在联系和差异，以刺激新的方式。文学改编的过程是根深蒂固的，有许多重要的文学例子，从菲利普·西德尼到J·K·罗琳。然而，在新兴的名人文化和迅速扩张的图书贸易的背景下，18世纪的读者们兴高采烈地将文本重塑为另一种艺术形式。这一时期的流行作品与它们所启发的改编作品之间存在着一种生动的、互惠的关系。文本以新的形式成为公众消费和回流的物质，因为读者通过制作自己版本的著名作品变成了创造者。劳伦斯·斯特恩(1713-1868)是他那个时代最受欢迎和最成功的作家之一。他的奇特小说《绅士特里斯特瑞姆·尚迪的生活和观点》(The Life and Options of Tristram Shandy，Gentleman，1759-67)和《穿越法国和意大利的感伤之旅》(A Sential Journey Things Three France and Italia，1768年)大获成功，并激发了一系列创作灵感：文字、图像和表演方面的创造性回应。虽然这一时期的其他流行文本激发了创造力，但没有人像斯特恩那样经历了多产或多样化的改编。斯特恩的第一批读者发现他的小说在所有意义上都是惊人的“小说”，从《特里斯特拉姆·尚迪》的古怪故事、有趣的排版和粗俗，到《多愁善感的旅程》中色情幽默和感人悲情的模棱两可的混合。这两部小说都在国内外产生了续集、模仿、续集、歌曲、戏剧以及视觉和物质文化；例如，约克(York Yck)的《法兰西表》(Tableau Sential de la France，1792年)就利用斯特恩的同情心旅行者来批评大革命后的法国。斯特恩继续吸引着读者：他的书从未绝版；有源源不断的参观者来到他的家尚迪音乐厅；艺术家、作家和音乐家仍然对他独特的作品做出自己的创造性解释。实验视觉呈现叙事是由斯特恩首创的，并在斯特涅阿纳中大量存在。SDL将是第一个尝试对视觉叙事进行数字编码的数字资源，如雕刻的线条、空白和非语言排版标记。这个项目的主要目的是用《斯特尔尼阿纳》作为案例研究，以考察18世纪改编的动态文化。它的目标是创建斯特恩数字图书馆，这是一个将斯特恩的小说与鲜为人知且迄今被边缘化的斯特尔尼阿纳相结合的数字资源，允许用户对它们进行搜索，确定它们的协同效应，并探索死后在文学文化中所具有的更广泛的影响。它将由世界领先的学者编写的说明性文本来说明，这些文本介绍、阐明并鼓励探索它的新途径。它在开放访问平台剑桥数字图书馆上举办，将为剑桥大学图书馆(CUL)和尚迪霍尔(LST)的劳伦斯·斯特恩信托基金(LST)的珍宝带来新的观众，无论是数量还是范围都是无与伦比的。

项目成果

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• 作者: Special Issue Of The Shandean Journal

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• DOI: 10.36019/9781684484652-004
• 发表时间: 2023
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