A STUDY ON THE DISCOURSE OF "CLASSIC" IN ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM THE STANDOINT OF CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS

文化表征视角下的英语文学“经典”话语研究

基本信息

批准号：
11610486
负责人：
TAKADA Yasunari
金额：
$ 2.3万
依托单位：
THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
1999
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1999 至 2000
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

This year, following the research results from the study of "the controversy of ancients and moderns, the focus has been put on the Homeric scholar, Robert Wood, who initiated a positivist investigation in the classical studies, in the hope that we may reveal the way in which the discourse of classics in the eighteenth-century England was formed. The discourse of classics which was prevalent prior to Wood had been that represented by Alexander Pope, whose An Essay on Homer is based on the idea of Homer the genius, Wood, on the other hand, went to Greece twice, traveling around and made observations on location. His Essay on the Genius of Homer is a positivist endeavor to identify the world described in the works of Homer with that of the actuality he observed. In this instance, "the genius of Homer" was tantamount to the ability to imitate nature. But, this principle of imitation would inevitably bring the Homeric scholars to the practice of "oral tradition, " which was still extant in those days in the region. This collective practice of poetic creation, in turn, gave rise to the innovative insights, which would break down the Romantic notion of the individual Homer the genius, on the one hand, and hrghlight the problematics of the authenticity of the "text" and its origins. The discourse of classic in the eighteenth century was ultimately to give rise to the problems of unattainability of the original meaning and the inevitability of the textual mediacy.

今年，继“古今之争”研究成果之后，我们把焦点放在荷马学者罗伯特·伍德身上，他在古典研究中发起了实证主义的考察，希望能够揭示十八世纪英国古典话语的形成方式在伍德之前盛行的古典话语是以亚历山大·波普为代表的，他的《荷马散文》就是以天才荷马的思想为基础的。另一方面，伍德两次前往希腊，四处旅行并进行实地观察，他的《论荷马的天才》是一篇实证主义的尝试，旨在将荷马作品中描述的世界与他所观察到的现实相结合。在这个例子中，“荷马的天才”就等于模仿自然的能力，但是，这种模仿的原则将不可避免地将荷马学者带到当时该地区仍然存在的“口头传统”的实践中。这种诗歌创作的集体实践反过来又产生了创新性的见解，一方面打破了天才荷马个体的浪漫主义观念，另一方面也凸显了“文本”及其真实性的问题。起源。十八世纪的经典话语最终导致了原义不可及性和文本媒介性的必然性问题。