Blake and the Comic Tradition

布莱克与喜剧传统

• 批准号: 2605385
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2605385
• 关键词: Blake; Comic; Tradition

My research seeks to untangle Blake from conventional narratives, which read him solely as an always-earnest visionary, and instead reveal his engagements with the comic mode. My proposed PhD study will illuminate that these two Blakes are not incompatible. As Blake writes, abstention from laughter is 'a power unknown to many a vigorous mind' ('Annotations to Lavater') - comedy is not only funny but is imperative to his notion of mental dynamism. I will analyse Blakean comedy through a close, interdisciplinary reading of his text and images. First, I will consider Blake's surprising inheritance of an Augustan humour. My study will read Blake's radical union of high/low, epic/trivial (like Milton's descent from Golgonooza 'to Blackheath east to Hounslow west/ To Finchley north to Norwood south') in relation to Pope and Swift's bathos. Mock-heroic falls and a warped sense of scale enact Blakean vision which explodes hierarchy in revolutionary immanence. My research seeks to resituate Blake in literary history, characterising him not only as a Romantic poet but also, and no less significantly, as a squarely eighteenth-century one. I will then consider Blake's similarities to Christopher Smart's prophetically charged humour as well as the underexplored influence of Chaucerian bawdiness and the Shakespearean Fool on Blake's comedy. I am keen to widen my research to explore Blake in the context of contemporary visual satire and the grotesque register of Gothic art.

我的研究旨在解开布莱克从传统的叙述，读他只是作为一个总是认真的幻想家，而是揭示他与喜剧模式的订婚。我建议的博士研究将阐明，这两个布雷克是不兼容的。正如布莱克所写的，对笑声的克制是“许多精力充沛的人所不知道的一种力量”（《拉瓦特的注释》）--喜剧不仅有趣，而且对他的精神动力学概念至关重要。我将通过对布莱克的文本和图像进行跨学科的阅读来分析他的喜剧。首先，我将考虑布莱克对奥古斯都幽默的惊人继承。我的研究将阅读布莱克的激进联盟的高/低，史诗/琐碎（如米尔顿的下降从戈尔戈努扎"布莱克希思东到西亨斯洛/芬奇利北到诺伍德南“）与教皇和斯威夫特的低音。模仿英雄的福尔斯和扭曲的规模感制定了布莱克的愿景，在革命的内在性爆炸等级。我的研究试图在文学史上重新定位布莱克，不仅将他描述为浪漫主义诗人，而且同样重要的是，作为一个正直的十八世纪诗人。然后，我将考虑布莱克的相似之处克里斯托弗聪明的预言充电幽默，以及未充分发掘的影响乔叟的淫秽和莎士比亚的傻瓜布莱克的喜剧。我热衷于扩大我的研究，以探讨布莱克在当代视觉讽刺和哥特艺术的怪诞注册的背景下。