Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

英国和德国的科学诗歌和诗学，从文艺复兴到启蒙运动

• 批准号: AH/Y007530/1
• 负责人: Kevin Killeen
• 金额: $ 44.7万
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY007530%2F1
• 关键词: Scientific; Poetry; Poetics; Britain; Germany

Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the EnlightenmentThis project explores a mass of largely-unknown scientific poetry, ranging across sciences such as geology, astronomy and botany, and a corresponding poetics of science, an imaginative-aesthetic quality to the emerging disciplines. It will reveal a vibrant facet of Renaissance, Restoration, and Enlightenment culture: the production not only of new ideas, but new forms and vocabularies in which to think through those ideas. This poetic writing did not serve as an equivalent of prose, or a mere popularisation of 'real' science, but positively understood its practice to address nuances of the world, physical and metaphysical, that prose could not plumb. Poetry, the era believed, did not function as mere ornament, but to reveal deep structures in the created world. This potential was theorised by the period's emerging literary criticism, a practice that developed in, the research will show, demonstrable parallel with modern science. The project will unearth and analyse a body of work by women, much of it still in manuscript, that deploys its theo-scientific ideas to dazzling effect, as well as a mass of Neo-Latin verse on topics ranging from blood transfusion to flight theory. It will also show the diffusion of this phenomenal body of scientific literature and its agile poetics, whose influence can be seen in a set of networks operating across Northern Europe - in Latin and German as well as English, and it will trace how a long history of didactic scientific verse morphs and mutates with particularly dramatic effects in the late 17th and early 18th century. The research addresses lacunae in both English and German scholarship. While recent work has addressed the rhetorical character of early modern science, it has focused almost exclusively on prose writing, often of a later period, by male writers, in the vernaculars. This research will show how, in the 17th and 18th centuries, poetic writing was not only central to communicating natural philosophical knowledge, but how shared imaginative processes were thought to inform both domains. One consequence of this blind spot in the scholarship has been a thoroughgoing neglect of a significant English-German poeto-scientific transfer in the early European Enlightenment. The project's reformulation of the era's poetic ideas - its cosmopoetics, its theopoetics and its physico-theology - bears on how we understand emergent aesthetics in this most tumultuous period for the vernaculars of both England and Germany. It will also reveal a good deal about the compositional and referential density of both scientific knowledge and poetic forms, writing that came to be valued precisely because of its discursive volatility and its kaleidoscopic capacity. The project opens up Anglo-German perspectives on the European res publica litteraria that have not been studied, and via its exploration of respective textual corpora and archival finds, the cooperation promises to reveal connections and otherwise hidden parallels in disciplines that have come to be understood, in debates on the 'two cultures' of science and humanities, as antithetical and antagonistic.

从文艺复兴到启蒙运动，本项目的科学诗歌和诗学探索了许多不可或缺的科学诗歌，包括地质学，天文学和植物学等科学，以及相应的科学诗学，以及相应的诗学诗学，是一种想象中的知名度，是一种想象中的知识质量到emerging的学科。它将揭示复兴，恢复和启蒙文化的充满活力的方面：不仅是新思想的生产，而且是新的形式和词汇的生产，可以在其中思考这些思想。这种诗意的写作并不等同于散文，也不是“真实”科学的普及，而是积极地理解了其实践，以解决散文无法倾向的世界和形而上学的细微差别。诗歌是这个时代所认为的，并不是仅仅是装饰品，而是揭示创造世界中的深层结构。该时期的新兴文学批评是从理论上讲述的，这种批评的发展将与现代科学相似。该项目将发掘和分析女性的作品，其中大部分仍在手稿中，它们部署了其神学科学思想，即令人眼花smo乱的效果，以及从血液输血到飞行理论的主题的大量新拉丁经文。它还将显示出这种现象的科学文献及其敏捷诗学的扩散，它们的影响能够在北欧的一组网络中看到 - 拉丁语和德语以及英语，它将追溯到17th和18th Century在17th and 18th Century pragtagic of tep the Decactic Sc​​ientific Sc​​ientific Verse的长期历史。该研究涉及英语和德国奖学金的空白。尽管最近的作品已经解决了早期现代科学的修辞特征，但它几乎只关注男性作家，通常是在以后的散文写作上。这项研究将表明，在17世纪和18世纪，诗歌写作不仅是传达自然哲学知识的核心，而且是如何认为共同的想象过程来为这两个领域提供信息的核心。奖学金中这个盲点的结果之一是，在欧洲早期的启蒙运动中，对重大英国 - 德国诗意转移的重大忽视。该项目对时代的诗意思想的重新制定 - 其宇宙学，其神经学及其物理神学 - 对我们在这个最动荡的时期中如何理解我们如何理解英格兰和德国的白话时期。它还将揭示有关科学知识和诗意形式的组成和参考密度的很多交易，这些写作正是由于其话语的波动性和万花筒的能力而被重视的。该项目开辟了尚未研究的欧洲 - 德国人的观点，并通过探索各自的文本语料库和档案发现的探索，该合作有望揭示与科学和人类两种文化的辩论中所理解的纪律相似之处，并在纪律中隐藏了相似之处。