Penguin Archive Project

企鹅图书是两三代读者的标志性经历。这家平装书出版社在20世纪改变了书籍的范围，并极大地扩展了普通读者的书籍可用性。在布里斯托尔大学（Bristol University）收藏的企鹅档案（Penguin Archive）中，有大量该公司的文件，包括许多作者的信件，可以揭示企鹅是如何回应并影响我们文化和政治生活的许多领域的。这项研究的目的是建立一个联机的档案目录，提高其内容的知识和它的可访问性，为国内和国际的专业研究人员和一般读者。它进一步旨在通过在企鹅活动的三个领域的开创性研究来展示档案馆丰富的研究潜力：现代诗歌；英国政治和时事（20世纪30年代至70年代）；以及希腊语和拉丁语经典的英文译本。这些研究将回答的问题包括：关于我们如何理解当代诗歌，企鹅图书的证据能告诉我们什么？我们的品味是如何形成的，我们是如何开始阅读我们所读的特定诗人的？“企鹅特辑”系列在关注政治问题方面——在塑造公众舆论、社会和政治分析与行动议程以及20世纪下半叶历届政府的政策方面——有多大的影响力？企鹅经典在我们对古希腊和罗马作品的现代理解中发挥了什么作用？这些调查将作为企鹅档案的巨大潜力的最初例子，告诉我们关于20世纪生活的许多方面的转变，并将为在广泛的领域和学科的进一步研究提供模型。企鹅在很多方面都是第一个人民出版社，这个项目旨在通过企鹅读者日，展览和在全球网络上的高调，使企鹅档案更容易被公众访问。

Penguin books were the defining experience for two or three generations of readers. This paperback publishing house transformed the range and greatly extended the availability of books to a general readership in the Twentieth Century. The Penguin Archive, a vast collection of the company's papers including letters from many authors, held at Bristol University, has much to reveal about how Penguin responded to and influenced many areas of our cultural and political lives. This research aims to establish an on-line catalogue of the Archive, enhancing both knowledge of its contents and its accessibility, for specialist researchers and general readers, both nationally and internationally. It further aims to demonstrate the rich research potential of the Archive by pioneeering research in three areas of Penguin activity: Modern Poetry; British politics and current affairs (from 1930s to 1970s); and the Greek and Latin Classics in English translations. Examples of questions which such researches will answer include: What can the evidence of Penguin Books tell us about how we have come to understand contemporary poetry? How was our taste formed and how have we come to read the particular poets that we do? How influential were the series of 'Penguin Specials' in focusing political issues - in shaping public opinion, the agenda of social and political analysis and action, and the policies of successive governments in the second half of the Twentieth Century? What role did Penguin Classics play in our modern understanding of the writings of Ancient Greece and Rome? Such investigations will serve as the initial examples of the Penguin Archive's great potential to tell us about the transformation of many aspects of twentieth-century life and will provide models for further research in a wide range of areas and academic disciplines. Penguin was in many ways the first people's publisher and this project intends to make the Penguin Archive much more accessible to the general public by way of Penguin Readers' Days, exhibitions, and a high profile on the world-wide web.