Proposed research title(s) History, 'Weird Time', and the Subterranean in Britain, c. 1100-1400

拟议的研究标题历史、“奇怪的时间”和英国的地下，c。

基本信息

批准号：
2908501
负责人：
金额：
--
依托单位：
University of Cambridge
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2023 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2908501
关键词：
Proposed research title History Weird

项目摘要

My research looks to investigate a curious motif in literatures of the Middle Ages, spanning genres, in whichsubterranean, cavernous, or buried spaces are associated with warped or asynchronous experiences of time. Storiesabound of caves and hollows in which time seems to pass more slowly than on the surface world; of messianic kingssuch as Arthur, who sleep in 'suspended animation' within hollow mountains until called upon to save their people; andinstances in which figures journey into crypts, barrows, or underground passageways, there confronting relics of theforgotten past. Providing an ecocritical reading of these texts, I will look to foreground these underground spaces asmediaeval sites of what literary scholars have referred to as 'weird time', moments where quotidian or dominantunderstandings of time are intruded upon by alternative temporalities of disturbing, alien duration. This notion of'dominant' times and histories introduces the crux of my project, investigating instances where the subterranean isimplicated in 'colonial' discourses of the British past and future in Anglo-Norman history writing and political prophecy.Here underground spaces are often figured as sites of encounter between the English present and relics of the Welsh,Anglo-Saxon and British past; and here, too, the atemporality of subterranean space is often evoked in order tomarginalise the subaltern polities of Britain both geographically and within British history.

我的研究旨在调查中世纪跨流派文学中的一个奇怪主题，其中地下、洞穴或埋藏空间与扭曲或异步的时间体验相关。洞穴和空洞的故事比比皆是，在这些地方，时间似乎过得比地表世界慢。像亚瑟这样的弥赛亚国王，他们在空旷的山脉中“假死”地沉睡，直到被召唤来拯救他们的人民；在一些场景中，人物进入地窖、手推车或地下通道，在那里面对被遗忘的过去的遗迹。通过对这些文本进行生态批判性解读，我将把这些地下空间作为文学学者所说的“怪异时间”的中世纪场所，在这些时刻，对时间的日常或占主导地位的理解被令人不安的、陌生的持续时间的替代时间性所侵入。这种“主导”时代和历史的概念介绍了我的项目的关键，即调查盎格鲁-诺曼历史写作和政治预言中有关英国过去和未来的“殖民”话语中涉及地下的实例。这里的地下空间通常被视为英国现在与威尔士、盎格鲁-撒克逊和英国过去的遗迹相遇的地点；在这里，地下空间的非时间性也经常被唤起，以便在地理上和英国历史上边缘化英国的底层政体。