Inland Waters and Archipelagic Identity in Middle English Romance

我的博士项目将研究水在中世纪英语浪漫故事中的各种含义，特别是新鲜的和“沼泽”的水。我特别感兴趣的是，水是一种媒介，中世纪的作家通过水探索了固化的英国国家和凯尔特人(北欧、法国等)之间的文化互动。利润率。我将调查广泛的中世纪英语文本，以及古法语、盎格鲁-诺曼语和各种凯尔特语的诗歌，通过生态批评和后殖民/原殖民主义的视角阅读它们。我还将把哥特式的卑鄙理论应用于这些“沼泽”文学，并努力发展中世纪群岛文学的沼泽理论，它迷失了物质、空间、性别和时间性的划分。

My doctoral project will investigate the various significations of water in Middle English romance, specifically fresh and "boggy" water. I am specifically interested in the way water is a vector through which medieval authors explored the cultural interactions between the solidifying English state and the Celtic (Norse, French, etc.) margins. I will survey a wide range of Middle English texts, as well as poems in Old French, Anglo-Norman, and various Celtic languages, reading them through an ecocritical and post-/proto-colonial lens. I will also bring gothic theories of abjection to bear upon these "boggy" literatures, and endeavour to develop a bog theory of medieval archipelagic literature which mires divisions in matter, space, gender, and temporality.