Archiving Agnes Owens: Asserting the Marginal Voice

归档艾格尼丝·欧文斯：维护边缘声音

• 批准号: 2887790
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Strathclyde
• 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-2887790
• 关键词: Archiving; Agnes; Owens; Asserting; Marginal

Drawing on her archives recently donated to the Alasdair Gray Archive (AGA), this will be the first study of the complete writings of Agnes Owens, restoring the importance of her literature of the marginalised, within its West of Scotland setting, to Scottish literary culture, and beyond. The PhD will focus on three key areas:1. Archiving the papers of Agnes Owens - working with the AGA to organise and catalogue the recently donated papers. This will include preparing a chronological study of her works, incorporating the previously unseen, unpublished works.2. A detailed study of the broader context of Owens's work. This section will situate Owens's work within her broader West of Scotland context. This will include a study of the correspondence and collective textual editing between Agnes Owens, Liz Lochhead and Alasdair Gray. To what extent was the writing of Agnes Owens influenced by other Scottish writers? In turn, to what extent did she influence their work? This section will also focus on the working-class context of Owens's work, as well as the broader networks she was operating within (involvement in writers' groups and literary magazines).3. Formal study of her literary works. A central theme running through Owens's work is marginalisation: her texts illuminate outsider figures who, because of their status, reveal absurdities in our social relations, our psychology, and our value systems. This project will offer a sustained critical analysis of Owens's entire oeuvre through the lens of the marginalised and alienated subject (from the writer, through the narrator and poetic voice, to characters).Methodologies:In order to deepen understanding of the context of Owens' work, a central aspect of the project will be to build upon the existing archival materials through the addition of a strand of oral history interviews (with fellow writers, friends and family members). Many of Owens's short stories first appeared in small literary magazines and writers' group publications. She was first 'discovered' by Liz Lochhead when she tutored at her writers' group in the Vale of Leven. These interconnections will be further explored through interviewing magazine editors and writers' group participants/ organisers. Opening out the cultural and historical context of Owens's work in this way will also be vital to understanding the broader literary and cultural context of Scotland at this time. Many of the interviewees are elderly and there is an urgency and time-sensitivity to this project. The interview recordings and transcriptions will be stored jointly between the AGA and the Scottish Oral History Centre (SOHC) at Strathclyde, where they will be publicly available resources.One of the main contexts of the thesis will be a sustained critical analysis of marginalisation and alienated subjectivities throughout Owens's work. This will involve comparative studies of Owens's narrative strategies in different works, forms, and periods: focussing on formal features like ironic distance, frame narratives, implied audiences, blind-spots, and black humour. This will place Owens's work in its wider literary historical context and extend critical appreciation of late-20th-century working-class experimentalism in Scottish literature and the arts more broadly.

借鉴她的档案最近捐赠给阿拉斯代尔灰色档案馆（阿加），这将是第一次研究艾格尼丝欧文斯的完整著作，恢复她的边缘化文学的重要性，在其苏格兰西部的设置，苏格兰文学文化，超越。博士将专注于三个关键领域：1。整理艾格尼丝·欧文斯的论文--与阿加合作，对最近捐赠的论文进行整理和编目。这将包括准备她的作品的时间顺序研究，纳入以前看不见的，未出版的作品。对欧文斯作品更广泛背景的详细研究。本节将介绍欧文斯在她更广泛的苏格兰西部背景下的工作。这将包括对Agnes Owens，Liz Lochhead和Alasdair Gray之间的通信和集体文本编辑的研究。艾格尼丝·欧文斯的作品在多大程度上受到其他苏格兰作家的影响？反过来，她在多大程度上影响了他们的工作？本节还将重点介绍欧文斯作品的工人阶级背景，以及她在其中运作的更广泛的网络（参与作家团体和文学杂志）。她的文学作品的正式研究。贯穿欧文斯作品的一个中心主题是边缘化：她的文本照亮了局外人，因为他们的地位，揭示了我们的社会关系，我们的心理和我们的价值体系中的荒谬。这个项目将通过被边缘化和异化的主体的透镜（从作家，通过叙述者和诗意的声音，到人物）对欧文斯的全部作品进行持续的批判性分析。方法：为了加深对欧文斯作品背景的理解，该项目的一个中心方面将是通过增加一系列口述历史访谈（与作家同行，朋友和家人）来建立现有的档案材料。欧文斯的许多短篇小说最初出现在小型文学杂志和作家团体出版物上。她第一次被利兹·洛赫黑德“发现”是在她在利文谷的作家小组做家教的时候。将通过采访杂志编辑和作家团体参与者/组织者进一步探讨这些相互联系。以这种方式打开欧文斯作品的文化和历史背景，对于理解此时苏格兰更广泛的文学和文化背景也至关重要。许多受访者是老年人，这一项目具有紧迫性和时间敏感性。采访录音和transmitting将共同存储之间的阿加和苏格兰口述历史中心（SOHC）在斯特拉斯克莱德，在那里他们将是公开可用的resources.One的论文的主要内容将是一个持续的边缘化和异化的主体性欧文斯的工作进行批判性分析。这将涉及欧文斯的叙事策略在不同的作品，形式和时期的比较研究：专注于形式特征，如讽刺距离，框架叙事，隐含的观众，盲点和黑色幽默。这将把欧文斯的作品放在更广泛的文学历史背景下，并更广泛地扩展对20世纪末苏格兰文学和艺术中工人阶级实验主义的批判性欣赏。