A Land of Ice and Fire: An Ecocritical Reading of the Landscapes of the Islendingasogur

冰与火之国：对伊斯兰丁阿苏古尔风景的生态批判解读

• 批准号: 2883059
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2883059
• 关键词: Land; Ice; Fire; Ecocritical; Reading

This research will result in the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the various landscapes, seascapes, and settings of the Islendingasogur, and provide a vital contribution towards modern perceptions of environmental preservation and conservation.In 2011, Emily Lethbridge set out on a solo project to read each of the Islendingasogur in its local settings, creating a Saga Map which reflects the landscape in which the events of the texts take place. Despite this, and the promise of new critical readings aided by the project, very little scholarship has continued along these lines of enquiry. Moretti writes: "Placing a literary phenomenon in its specific place- mapping it - is not the conclusion of geographical work; it's the beginning. After which begins in fact the most challenging part of the whole enterprise: one looks at the map, and thinks" (1998: 7). This thesis will seek to bridge this gap between the scholarly apparatus supplied by Lethbridge and the lack new critical thought stemming from it, examining the various landscapes, seascapes, and placesintertwined in medieval Icelandic literature, and offering new readings regarding the uniqueness of the relationship between the Icelandic landscape and the saga narratives of those people who inhabited it.There are still noticeable gaps in the study of landscape, especially regarding Old Norse literature. Although there have been some valuable environmentally-based research articles (Barraclough, 2010; Kinniburgh, 2018) and a highly influential study on the foreshadowing of our current ecological crisis through Ragnarok (Abram, 2019), Abram largely focuses on the poetry and mythology of Old Norse, while Barraclough and Kinniburgh focus the outlaw sagas alone. Unlike these previous works, this research will cover the full range of sagas of Icelanders, rather than just the most popular ones. It will build on these previous works of ecological analysis in Old Norse texts, but also expand upon them toproduce the first book-length ecocritical study of the landscapes of the Islendingasogur.This thesis will examine the following key questions to understanding the importance of landscape in the family sagas: How do the depictions of migrations and settlements reflect the importance of landscape? Does Iceland's unique position create a closer link between settlers and place? What power dynamics and social hierarchies can be observed through interactions with the landscape? How do we deal with spaces beyond our ownership? What is the link between place and nationality in modern culture? And finally, what is ecocriticism and why does it matter to us?These questions are vital to exploring past interactions with and interpretations of the natural landscape with the aim of reflecting on and contextualising our own modern engagement and actions. This thesis will benefit Old Norse and Medieval studies, but also the wider fields of textual geography, migration studies, climate engagement, and socio-political understanding of collective human identities. Through interdisciplinary study and understanding of different views and representations of the natural world there is hope that a more respectful or simply stable attitude towards the natural world can be attained again in the future.

这项研究将首次对 Islendingasogur 的各种景观、海景和环境进行全面、深入的分析，并为现代环境保护和保护观念做出重要贡献。2011 年，艾米丽·莱斯布里奇 (Emily Lethbridge) 启动了一个个人项目，在当地环境中阅读 Islendingasogur 的每一篇，创建了一张佐贺地图，反映了文本中的事件发生的景观。 地方。尽管如此，并且该项目承诺提供新的批判性读物，但沿着这些探究方向继续进行的学术研究却很少。莫雷蒂写道：“将一种文学现象放置在其特定的地点——绘制它——并不是地理工作的结论；而是开始。此后，实际上开始了整个事业中最具挑战性的部分：人们看着地图，思考”（1998：7）。本论文将寻求弥合莱斯布里奇提供的学术机构与由此产生的缺乏新的批判性思想之间的差距，研究中世纪冰岛文学中交织在一起的各种风景、海景和地点，并提供关于冰岛风景与居住在冰岛的人们的传奇叙事之间关系的独特性的新解读。 风景，尤其是古挪威文学。尽管有一些有价值的基于环境的研究文章（Barraclough，2010；Kinniburgh，2018）以及一项极具影响力的研究，通过《诸神黄昏》预示着我们当前的生态危机（Abram，2019），但艾布拉姆主要关注古挪威的诗歌和神话，而Barraclough和Kinniburgh只关注亡命徒传奇。与之前的作品不同，这项研究将涵盖冰岛人的全部传奇故事，而不仅仅是最受欢迎的传奇故事。它将建立在古斯堪的纳维亚文本中这些先前的生态分析著作的基础上，但也在此基础上进行了扩展，以产生第一本针对伊斯兰达索古尔景观的生态批评研究。本论文将研究以下关键问题，以理解景观在家庭传奇中的重要性：对迁徙和定居的描述如何反映景观的重要性？冰岛独特的地理位置是否在定居者和地方之间建立了更紧密的联系？通过与景观的互动可以观察到哪些权力动态和社会等级制度？我们如何处理超出我们所有权范围的空间？现代文化中地方和民族之间有什么联系？最后，什么是生态批评，为什么它对我们很重要？这些问题对于探索过去与自然景观的互动和解释至关重要，目的是反思和背景化我们自己的现代参与和行动。这篇论文将有利于古挪威语和中世纪研究，也有利于文本地理学、移民研究、气候参与和对人类集体身份的社会政治理解等更广泛的领域。通过跨学科研究和对自然世界不同观点和表征的理解，希望未来能够再次对自然世界采取更加尊重或简单稳定的态度。