Research on the Secrecy and Genres in the Seventeenth-Century Royalist Literature in England

通过本研究得出以下几点：1。虽然在廉价印刷媒体中蓬勃发展的流行体裁（歌曲，民谣，祷文等）很少表现出高度神秘的表现，但读者更有限的贵族体裁（爱情诗，田园诗，冥想诗或宗教诗等）经常被用作伪装或密码来传递秘密信息。虽然诸如爱情诗和宗教诗之类的体裁只是简单地用于伪装，但田园诗在产生其所包含的文化和历史代码的神秘意义方面有着更直接的影响。田园牧歌似乎也使有限的读者能够坚持他们的文化和政治身份，使他们能够分享这样的贵族准则。保皇党文献的秘密性似乎是保皇党维持其文化和社会权威的一部分，通过神秘化，并声称有特权访问，神圣的物质，如上帝和国王，被理解为他们权威的最终来源。为了说明体裁是如何被用来伪装的，我把重点放在亨利·沃恩的《世界》上，并认为这是一个高度体裁意识的事业，它巧妙地利用了宗教诗歌的体裁，通常被理解为诗人的私人祈祷，实际上，批评了演讲者自己，他被含蓄地描述为清教徒的传教士。通过这次研究，我大大扩大了我对体裁理论的总体认识，对各个体裁的历史和惯例的认识，以及对一些当代散文体裁的认识。对于未来的项目，我计划更多地关注文学体裁方面的理论问题。

The points made through this research are the following:1.While the popular genres that thrived in cheap-print media (song, ballad, litany etc.) rarely show highly cryptic representations, the aristocratic genres that had a more limited readership (love poetry, pastoral, meditative or religious poetry etc.) are often utilized as camouflage or codes to impart secret messages.2.While such genres as love poetry and religious poetry are rather simply used for camouflage, pastoral has a more direct bearing on generating cryptic meanings in terms of the cultural and historical codes it contains. Pastoral also seems to have enabled the limited readership to hold on to their cultural and political identity allowing them to share such aristocratic codes.3.The secrecy of the royalist literature seems to have been part of the royalist enterprise to maintain their cultural and social authority by mystifying, and claiming to have privileged access to, divine substance such as God and King understood as the ultimate source of their authority.4.To show how genres are used for camouflage, I focused on Henry Vaughan's "The World" and argued that it is a highly genre-conscious enterprise that skillfully utilizes the genre of religious poetry usually understood as a poet's private prayer to criticize, in actuality, the speaker himself who is implicitly characterized as a Puritan preacher.5.Through this research I greatly enlarged my knowledge of genre theories in general, histories and conventions of respective genres, and some of the contemporary prose genres.For future projects, I am planning to focus on more theoretical issues concerning literary genres.