'Now thou art an O without a figure': A Feminine Hermeneutics of Absence and the Early Modern Theatre

“现在你是一个没有形象的O”：缺席的女性诠释学和早期现代戏剧

• 批准号: 2487318
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Stirling
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2487318
• 关键词: Now; thou; art; without; figure

My doctoral research will explore grief through a hermeneutical approach in considering how grief may be understood as an apophatic (unsayable) discourse. Contra traditional psychological models of grief, this project will demonstrate the need to understand grief qualitatively through the medium of literature, and moreover will focus on writing as experiential. In this way, loss will be understood as leading both to and away from language, and mourning will be posited as a process of metamorphosis which (de)constructs (non)selfhood. Emphasis will thus be given to the (un)solvability of grief through cyclical mourning, contrasting with linear models emphasizing recovery.To expand on the research question above, this PhD will analyze existential grief in a contemporary context and aim to understand grief as an unsayable discourse emanating from the no-thingness of existence. This will be executed through a quadripartite interdisciplinary methodology combining philosophy, religion, literature and hermeneutics. It will explore the relationship between grief and apophasis, focusing on writing as a (de)generative process of recurrent mourning. The first chapter will outline the existential plight in our current European context, lamenting the instability of reality in the absence of God, which has been exposed by the fracturing of Western discourse through poststructuralist movements. This chapter will engage with key existential and postmodern figures such as Soren Kierkegaard, Fredrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida, outlining the present post postmodern existential crisis of identity and demonstrate its relationship to grief. The second chapter will then develop existential grief as an apophatic (incommunicable) discourse, and will primarily draw upon William Franke and Michael Sells, demonstrating its aim through the literature of C.S. Lewis and Shakespearean Tragedy. Chapter Three will subsequently take a phenomenological turn, demonstrating writing as an experiential process of mourning in terms of identity (de)construction via kinetic negation. This will be explored through the works of Hélène Cixous, Martin Heidegger, Catherine Keller and the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Finally, Chapter Four will explore Derridean notions of the nominal proper as apophatic in (non)relation to the deceased, understanding death as Absolute Loss-the beginning and end point of all grief and contingent mourning.The original contribution of this project is its highly interdisciplinary study of grief, which has had more emphasis in quantitative research through the social and natural sciences. It will therefore provide a new understanding of grief/mourning in the humanities that does not follow clinical or recovery pathways. Furthermore, it will also contribute to newly emerging scholarship on contemporary apophatics and theopoetics by merging both discourses in the nodal study of grief, and will moreover revive existential thought within immediate consciousness. Questions surrounding mourning and identity are especially pertinent in our present era, which does not yet have a language to define itself, thereby eliciting grief and uncertainty surrounding cultural and self-identification.

我的博士研究将通过解释学的方法来探讨悲伤，考虑如何将悲伤理解为一种非语言（不可说）的话语。与传统的悲伤心理模型相反，本项目将通过文学媒介来展示对悲伤进行定性理解的必要性，并将重点放在经验写作上。通过这种方式，丧失将被理解为导致语言和远离语言，哀悼将被假定为一个变形的过程，（去）构建（非）自我。因此，重点将通过周期性的哀悼，与强调恢复的线性模型相比，给予悲伤的（非）解决方案。为了扩展上述研究问题，这个博士将在当代背景下分析存在的悲伤，并旨在理解悲伤作为一个不可说的话语，从存在的虚无中产生。这将通过哲学、宗教、文学和诠释学相结合的四方跨学科方法来执行。它将探讨悲伤和apocolation之间的关系，专注于写作作为一个（去）生成的过程，经常性的哀悼。第一章将概述我们当前欧洲语境中的生存困境，哀叹在上帝缺席的情况下现实的不稳定性，这一点已经通过后结构主义运动对西方话语的断裂而暴露出来。本章将与关键的存在主义和后现代人物，如索伦·克尔凯郭尔，弗里德里希·尼采，让-保罗·尼采和雅克·德里达，概述当前后后现代存在主义的身份危机，并展示其与悲伤的关系。第二章将把存在主义的悲伤发展为一种非语言性的（不可传达的）话语，并将主要借鉴威廉·弗兰克和迈克尔·塞尔斯的作品，通过C. S.刘易斯与莎士比亚悲剧第三章将从现象学的角度出发，通过动态否定的身份（去）建构，论证写作是一个哀悼的经验过程。这将通过海伦·西苏，马丁·海德格尔，凯瑟琳·凯勒的作品和艾米丽·狄金森的诗歌来探索。最后，第四章将探讨德里达的概念，即名词性的专有名词与死者有（无）关系，将死亡理解为绝对的损失--所有悲伤和偶然哀悼的起点和终点。因此，它将提供一个新的理解悲伤/哀悼的人文学科，不遵循临床或恢复途径。此外，它也将有助于新兴的学术对当代哲学和神诗学的融合两种话语的节点研究的悲伤，而且将恢复存在主义思想的直接意识。在我们这个时代，围绕哀悼和身份的问题尤其重要，因为我们还没有一种语言来定义自己，从而引发了围绕文化和自我认同的悲伤和不确定性。