'A diverse voice, a diverse noise': the book of Genesis in early modern England

“不同的声音，不同的噪音”：现代早期英格兰的《创世记》

基本信息

批准号：
2243440
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
University College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
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=studentship-2243440
关键词：
diverse voice noise book Genesis

项目摘要

My research explores the intersections between biblical and literary cultures in early modern England. In particular, my project focuses on the book of Genesis as it appeared in English between 1605 and 1667 - a period demarcated by the publication of Josuah Sylvester's 'Devine Weekes' on one side and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' on the other.During this period, the book of Genesis provided a singular test to vernacular literature. While translations attended to its multivalent language, imaginative renderings turned the text into English verse, and scholarly commentaries unpacked its unparalleled theological significance. Yet critics have rarely examined Genesis in this period. Approaches have tended either to explore the relationship between scripture and major literary works, or to subsume its translation within large-scale biblical projects - from Coverdale to the King James Bible. By contrast, my study explores the variety of ways in which early modern writers engaged with biblical material. Genesis was translated, versified, expounded, sermonised, cut up and pasted back together. My work focuses on this single biblical book to recover a closer sense of the ways in which scriptural texts shifted between these various forms. It will show that scripture was not comprised of a stable series of biblical books, but a network of engagements that generated its singular significance.

我的研究探讨了现代早期英格兰圣经和文学文化之间的交集。特别是，我的项目着重于1605年至1667年之间英语出现的《创世纪》，这是由Josuah Sylvester的“ Devine Weekes”出版的时期一方面，而John Milton的“ Paradise of Lost of Mover”。虽然翻译使用了其多价语言，但富有想象力的效果图将文本变成了英语诗歌，学术评论解开了其无与伦比的神学意义。然而，在此期间，批评家很少检查起源。方法倾向于探索圣经与主要文学作品之间的关系，或者将其翻译纳入大规模的圣经项目 - 从Coverdale到詹姆斯国王圣经。相比之下，我的研究探讨了早期现代作家从事圣经材料的多种方式。创世纪被翻译，宣传，阐述，讲道，切割和粘贴在一起。我的作品着重于这本单一的圣经书籍，以更深刻地了解圣经文本在这些形式之间转移的方式。它将表明圣经不是由一系列稳定的圣经书籍组成的，而是一个产生其奇异意义的订婚网络。