Compositional Techniques in Anglo-Saxon Verse Hagiography

我的DPhil项目致力于理解和欣赏古英语诗歌中的作曲技巧。与其过分关注几十年来口头公式化的写作和传播观念，我的调查旨在促进知识领域的是盎格鲁-撒克逊诗歌的文学性及其美学、它的互文性和接受性。经过深思熟虑的、深思熟虑的和高度文学性的作文实践允许有针对性的典故，各种创新的文学公式作曲技巧，以及世俗英雄和拉丁裔基督教价值观的富有想象力和艺术融合，所有这些都在构成我的主要语料库的古英语诗歌圣徒传记(Juliana，Elene，Guthlac A和B，Andreas和Judith)中尤其富有成效，经常被那个时期的“英雄”诗歌所掩盖。在白话诗歌圣化中识别文学美学和互文互动，显示了诗人对先前存在的文本的批判性和想象力的回应，并补充了盎格鲁-撒克逊人和现代批评受众对这些文本的理解和享受。批评范式的转变，更多的研究工具，以及对长期存在的确定性的破坏，都意味着古英语诗歌创作的问题需要迫切地重新思考。作为一名中世纪文学家，我的工作本质上是跨学科的：没有必要的语言能力，任何文学工作都无法进行，如果不在分析时考虑历史、文化和神学因素，中世纪世界的文学只会存在于难以理解的真空中。我的古英语和拉丁语的主要文本不仅是多语言和多文化的，而且是跨体裁的划分，历史时代，以及个人和非个人作者的问题。我的方法是将文学、语言和诗歌的精读、来源批评和类比与系统的语义检查和实证语料库分析相结合。通过牛津的盎格鲁-撒克逊诗歌综合图书馆项目，我的项目广泛使用并展示了新研究工具的独特功能，所有这些都是为了救济更常被研究的盎格鲁-撒克逊英格兰诗歌的整个语料库，并根据通过CLAP获得的创新技术数据形成其对语言、媒介、物质和意义的文学分析。在我的研究项目过程中，我将寻求发现并澄清以下证据，例如，拉丁文来源的许多遗漏和改动与旧英语叙事诗歌的敏感性相配合，文学公式化分配和合成的白话美学做法与将旧约犹大书转变为圣洁叙事的过程相配合，以及诗人们沉迷于先前被低估和明晰的作文做法，利用古英语世俗诗歌的假设、传统和特点。这样的结论旨在提高我们对古英语诗化实践的理解，在混合了世俗和神圣的‘艺术气质’的高生产率的背景下。我还对比较感兴趣，从英语拉丁诗歌和古英语散文传记，到中世纪其他方言的圣徒传记，以及对圣徒和圣徒的历史、神学和非文学描述。博士培训伙伴关系为我提供了发展必要的研究技能和专业知识的完美机会。我希望利用他们的支持和他们的战略伙伴的支持，扩大中世纪研究的当代相关性，打击那些妖魔化中世纪时期或错误地武器化“中世纪”意识形态的人，并与人文学科的学者和普通公众进行合作和交流知识。

My DPhil project addresses the understanding and appreciation of compositional techniques in Old English poetry. Rather than focusing inordinately on decades-old notions of oral-formulaic composition and transmission, it is the literariness of Anglo-Saxon poetry and its aesthetics, its intertextuality, and its reception which are the areas of knowledge my investigations aim to promote. Considered, deliberate, and highly literary compositional practices allow for pointed allusion, a variety of innovative literary-formulaic compositional techniques, and the imaginative and artistic blending of secular-heroic and Latinate-Christian values, are all particularly productive in the Old English verse hagiographies that form my primary corpus (Juliana, Elene, Guthlac A and B, Andreas, and Judith), often overshadowed by the 'heroic' poems of the period. Identifying literary aesthetics and intertextual interactions in vernacular poetic hagiography shows poets responding critically and imaginatively to preexisting texts, and supplements the understanding and enjoyment of these texts for both Anglo-Saxon and modern critical audiences. Shifting critical paradigms, more research tools, and the undermining of long-held certainties, all mean that questions of Old English poetic composition need urgent reconsideration. As a medievalist, my work is inherently interdisciplinary: without the requisite linguistic capabilities, none of the literary work could be undertaken, and without employing historical, cultural and theological considerations in analysis, the literature of the medieval world would exist only in an unintelligible vacuum. My primary texts in Old English and Latin are not only multilingual and multicultural, but cross genre divides, historical eras, and questions of individual and non-individual authorship. My methodology combines literary, linguistic and poetic close reading, source criticism, and analogue comparison with systematic semantic examination and empirical corpus analysis. Making extensive use of and showcasing the unique functionalities of new research tools which are becoming available via the Oxford-based Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry project, my project does all of this in relief of the entire corpus of the more-commonly studied poetry of Anglo-Saxon England, and forms its literary analysis of language, medium, matter and sense upon innovative technical data available via CLASP. During the course of my research project, I will seek to identify and elucidate evidence that, for example, many omissions and alterations from Latin sources cooperate with Old English narrative poetic sensibilities, that vernacular aesthetic practices of literary-formulaic distribution and compounding collaborate with the process of transforming the Old Testament Book of Judith into a saintly narrative, and that poets indulged in previously-underestimated and perspicacious compositional practices, employing the assumptions, traditions and characteristics of Old English secular poetry to singular ends. Conclusions such as these aim to advance our understanding of practices of Old English versification, in the highly-productive context of the hybrid secular and sacred 'art vitae'. I am also interested in comparanda ranging from Anglo-Latin poetry and Old English prose vitae, to medieval hagiography in other vernaculars, as well as historical, theological and non-literary depictions of saints and sainthood.The Doctoral Training Partnership provides me the perfect opportunity to develop both the requisite research skills and professional expertise. I hope to use their support and the support of their strategic partners to extend the contemporary relevance of medieval studies, to combat those who demonise the medieval period or falsely weaponise 'medievalist' ideology, and to collaborate and exchange knowledge with academics across the humanities and audiences of the general public alike.