Irish innovations: George Moore, Decadence and Modernism in Irish literature

爱尔兰的创新：乔治·摩尔，爱尔兰文学中的颓废与现代主义

• 批准号: 2275968
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Queen's University Belfast
• 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-2275968
• 关键词: Irish; innovations; George; Moore; Decadence

Summary of Proposed ResearchThis project will examine the work of Irish writer George Moore (1852-1933) to provide a critical reappraisal of the neglect of the relationship between aestheticism, decadence, and modernism in an Irish context. By contextualising Moore's involvement in historical and political debates of the period, and building on studies of history, aesthetics, form, life-writing and nationalism, it will bring Ireland and Moore's contribution to these movements into critical conversation. In developing an historicist methodology that offers new contexts in which to read Moore, it will challenge the underrepresentation of Moore and Irish writing in studies of the transition from decadence to modernism. Research ContextRefusing to be grounded by aesthetic, national and social limitation, George Moore consistently reinvented himself and exerted a discrete but important influence on British and Irish literary culture. Although there have been recent scholarly developments in how we view the relationship between aestheticism, decadence and modernism (Mahoney; Sherry; Weir), Moore's crucial role has been neglected. Analogously, the study of Irish cultural history in this period (1880-1920) has comparatively disregarded the critical function of aestheticism and decadence, instead focusing on modernism and the Irish Revival (Castle; Kiberd). This project offers an important corrective to both problems. Moore studies have seen substantial growth over the last twenty years (Frazier; Pierse; Heilmann and Llewellyn), however, his role in the connection between decadent writing and the emergence of a modernist aesthetic has yet to be addressed. Drawing on historical materials, I will challenge the assumption that decadence does not fit into the Irish nationalist literary movement by arguing that it is more political than commonly understood. This thesis will examine how Moore's aesthetic innovations and political commitments contributed to the cultural history of modern Ireland, and the distinctly 'Irish' transition from aestheticism and decadence to modernism. Research QuestionsWhy has Moore been relatively neglected as a defining force in narratives of British and Irish literary culture of this period? What does an in depth and highly localist historical study do to change traditional conceptions of Irish history? And why are certain events (Home Rule, 1916) privileged over other cultural and political histories?How can a formalist study of Moore's work help us to grasp the weight of his influence on the rise of modernism and a modern Irish literature? How does Moore's complicated association with 'Irishness' call into question traditional conceptions of the Irish Revival and regional identity formation in Ireland? Research MethodologyWhile previous critiques of the transition from decadence to modernism in literature have focused on queer aesthetics and politics (Mahoney), formalist approaches to whether modernity can be considered a temporally progressive 'transition' (Sherry), or a transnational study (Potolsky). By contrast, this thesis will develop a primarily historicist (concerned with both the historical context of the writer as well as critics and political figures) examination of the debates to which Moore was making pointed contributions, using interdisciplinary modes of enquiry, incorporating historiography, literary history, and visual cultures to establish Moore's influence on the transition from aestheticism and decadence to modernism in an Irish context. My critical approaches aim to provide new critical insight into how we understand; Moore's work, local, national, and aesthetic histories of Ireland, the transition from aestheticism and decadence to modernism. This in turn will add original contributions to the following fields of study; aestheticism, decadence, modernism, aesthetics, and historicist literary theory, and cultural and literary history.

本项目将研究爱尔兰作家乔治·摩尔（1852-1933）的作品，对在爱尔兰背景下忽视唯美主义、颓废主义和现代主义之间的关系进行批判性的重新评估。通过将摩尔参与这一时期的历史和政治辩论的背景化，以及对历史、美学、形式、生活写作和民族主义的研究，它将把爱尔兰和摩尔对这些运动的贡献带入批判性的对话中。在发展一种历史主义方法论，为阅读摩尔提供新的语境的过程中，它将挑战摩尔和爱尔兰作品在从颓废到现代主义过渡的研究中的代表性不足。乔治·摩尔不受审美、民族和社会局限的影响，不断重塑自我，对英国和爱尔兰文学文化产生了虽不明显但重要的影响。尽管最近在我们如何看待唯美主义、颓废主义和现代主义之间的关系方面有了学术上的发展（Mahoney; Sherry; Weir），但摩尔的关键作用却被忽视了。同样，这一时期（1880-1920）对爱尔兰文化史的研究相对忽略了唯美主义和颓废主义的批判作用，而将重点放在现代主义和爱尔兰复兴上（Castle; Kiberd）。这个项目为这两个问题提供了重要的纠正。摩尔的研究在过去的二十年里有了实质性的发展（弗雷泽；皮尔斯；海尔曼和卢埃林），然而，他在颓废写作和现代主义美学出现之间的联系中所起的作用尚未得到解决。根据历史资料，我将挑战这种假设，即颓废主义不适合爱尔兰民族主义文学运动，我认为颓废主义比人们通常理解的更具政治性。本文将研究摩尔的美学创新和政治承诺如何对现代爱尔兰的文化史做出贡献，以及从唯美主义和颓废主义到现代主义的独特“爱尔兰”过渡。研究问题：为什么摩尔作为这一时期英国和爱尔兰文学文化叙事中的决定性力量相对被忽视了？一项深入的、高度本土化的历史研究如何改变人们对爱尔兰历史的传统观念？为什么某些事件（1916年的地方自治）比其他文化和政治历史更有特权？对摩尔作品的形式主义研究如何帮助我们把握他对现代主义和现代爱尔兰文学兴起的影响？摩尔与“爱尔兰性”的复杂联系如何对爱尔兰复兴和爱尔兰地区身份形成的传统观念提出质疑？研究方法先前对文学从颓废到现代主义过渡的批评主要集中在酷儿美学和政治上（马奥尼），而形式主义的方法则是探讨现代性是否可以被认为是一种暂时的进步“过渡”（雪莉），或者是一种跨国研究（波托尔斯基）。相比之下，本文将发展一个主要的历史主义者（既关注作家的历史背景，也关注评论家和政治人物）对摩尔做出尖锐贡献的辩论的检查，使用跨学科的调查模式，结合史学，文学史和视觉文化，以确定摩尔对爱尔兰背景下从唯美主义和颓废主义向现代主义过渡的影响。我的批判方法旨在为我们如何理解；摩尔的作品，爱尔兰的地方，国家和审美历史，从唯美主义和颓废到现代主义的过渡。这反过来又将为以下研究领域增加原创性贡献；唯美主义，颓废，现代主义，美学，和历史主义文学理论，文化和文学史。