Skepticism and the Form of Thomas Hoccleve's Series

IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/sip.2023.0006
E. Harper
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Abstract:In his Series, the fifteenth-century English poet Thomas Hoccleve repeatedly expresses skepticism about his ability to know himself and about the ability of others to know him. While he repeatedly seeks outside validation from a mirror, from the judgments of others, and from a trusted Friend, each source of knowledge proves to be unreliable. By questioning not only his own perception but that of others—his neighbors, his readers, his characters—Hoccleve sets up the question of skepticism as the central problem of the Series. The disordered, fragmented frame narrative of the Series embeds this problem into the formal characteristics of the poem. In narrating his own writing process, with its interruptions, changes of purpose, and revisions, Hoccleve undercuts the reliability of the frame narrative structure and questions whether his poetry can provide stable knowledge.
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怀疑论与托马斯·霍克列夫系列小说的形式
摘要:15世纪的英国诗人托马斯·霍克里夫在他的系列作品中多次对自己了解自己的能力和他人了解他的能力表示怀疑。当他反复从镜子、他人的判断和值得信赖的朋友那里寻求外部验证时,每一种知识来源都被证明是不可靠的。霍克里夫不仅质疑自己的看法,还质疑其他人的看法——他的邻居、他的读者、他的角色——从而将怀疑论问题确立为该系列的核心问题。该系列无序、支离破碎的框架叙事将这一问题嵌入了诗歌的形式特征中。霍克里夫在叙述自己的写作过程时,通过中断、目的的改变和修改,削弱了框架叙事结构的可靠性,并质疑他的诗歌是否能提供稳定的知识。
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期刊介绍: Founded in 1903, Studies in Philology addresses scholars in a wide range of disciplines, though traditionally its strength has been English Medieval and Renaissance studies. SIP publishes articles on British literature before 1900 and on relations between British literature and works in the Classical, Romance, and Germanic Languages.
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