Julian of Norwich in Popular Fiction
Julian of Norwich in Popular Fiction
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通俗小说中的诺威奇的朱利安
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2009
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S. Chewning
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虽然现在可以通过参观圣朱利安教堂重建的牢房或诺维奇大教堂最近供奉的朱利安雕像，间接地感受到或体验到诺里奇的朱利安的存在，但除了她的文字和它产生的思想之外，朱利安本人几乎没有留下什么。然而，即使没有任何实物文物，诺里奇的朱利安在诺里奇以及更大的学术和大众圈子中仍然是一个独特的人物。萨拉·萨利赫（Sarah Salih）认为，“在这些人物中，她几乎是独一无二的，她在当今的公众形象中超越了专业的中世纪学家和神学家。”事实上，朱利安现在享受着中世纪学家认为是邪教的东西。就像中世纪的邪教一样，它调整和补充了它的核心材料，在这个例子中是《启示录》，为了塑造一个能够应对不断变化的环境的人物。她的存在已经超越了诺维奇的朱利安礼品店的范围（例如，朱利安和她的猫的雕像，在美国的“艺术”目录中可以买到）和虔诚的作品，成为通俗小说，并通过向人们传达中世纪女主的更大概念，登上了舞台和银幕在本章中，我将讨论自二十世纪中期以来写的几部小说，其中包括诺维奇的朱利安。虽然朱利安的许多方面都是通过虚构的叙述来解决的，但我将讨论三个主要问题：朱利安的传记和历史生活的表现；中世纪女性和白话文作者的代表性；以及她的神学思想的转变，尤其是她对耶稣是母亲，榛子，以及基督的血和流血的形象的观念，都变成了叙事小说。
Although the physical presence of Julian of Norwich may now be felt, or experienced, secondhand through visiting the reconstructed Cell at St. Julian’s Church or the recently dedicated statue of Julian at Norwich Cathedral, there is little left of Julian herself except her text and the ideas it has generated since it was produced. Even without any physical artifacts, however, Julian of Norwich remains a unique figure both in Norwich and in larger academic and popular circles. Sarah Salih argues that “almost alone amongst such figures, she has a present-day public profile beyond the academy of professional medievalists and theologians. Julian, in fact, currently enjoys what medievalists will recognise as a cult. Like a medieval cult, it adapts and supplements its core materials, in this case A Revelation, in order to construct a figure who can address changing circumstances.”1 Her presence has spread beyond the confines of Julian of Norwich gift shop items (statues of Julian and her cat, for example, are available in a U.S. “art” catalogue) and devotional works into popular fiction and, by informing the larger concept of the medieval anchoress, onto the stage and screen.2 In this chapter I will discuss several novels written since the mid-twentieth century that include Julian of Norwich as a character. Although many aspects of Julian are addressed by the fictional accounts, I will discuss three main issues: the representation of Julian’s biography and anchoritic life; the representation of medieval female and vernacular authorship; and the transformation of her theological ideas, particularly her concepts of Jesus as mother, the hazelnut, and the images of the blood and the bleeding of Christ, into narrative fiction.