丑书情怀:中世纪晚期女性写作中的物质性与负面影响

IF 0.4 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Emotions-History Culture Society Pub Date : 2023-06-23 DOI:10.1163/2208522x-02010184
S. Downes, S. Trigg
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在这篇文章中,我们借鉴了Sianne Ngai在《丑陋的感觉》(2005)中的作品,重点关注了15世纪早期中世纪文学中的两个例子,它们代表了中世纪书籍的“丑陋”,要么是因为它们引起了厌恶或厌恶的负面情绪,要么是因为它们在某种程度上被认为缺乏美学或不充分。克里斯汀·德·皮桑的《女人的生活》和玛杰里·肯普的《玛杰里·肯普之书》展示了女性与令人不安或困难的书籍的关系。两位叙述者遭遇的“丑书感”不仅挑战了他们作为作家的权威,也挑战了他们的自我意识。然而,这种感觉在叙事语境中是短暂的:在我们讨论的两个例子中,一个单一的材料文本充当了情感转变的催化剂,这可能是精神和/或智力的转变。我们认为,通过将这种情感置于广泛情感范围的中心,关注丑陋书籍情感的文学表现,补充了中世纪晚期女性与物质文本文化关系的现有学术研究。
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Ugly Book Feelings: Materiality and Negative Affect in Late Medieval Women’s Writing
Drawing on the work of Sianne Ngai in Ugly Feelings (2005), in this essay we focus on two examples from early fifteenth-century medieval literature that represent medieval books as ‘ugly’ either because they arouse negative feelings of aversion or disgust or because they are considered in some way aesthetically lacking or inadequate. Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la cité des dames and Margery Kempe’s Book of Margery Kempe present women’s involvement with troubling or difficult books. The ‘ugly book feelings’ which both narrators encounter challenge not only their authority as writers, but their very sense of self. Such feelings, however, are transitory when placed in narrative context: in the two examples we discuss, a single material text serves as the catalyst for a moment of emotional transformation which may be spiritual and/or intellectual. Attending to literary representations of ugly book feelings, we argue, complements existing scholarship on late medieval women’s relationship to material textual culture by placing such feelings at the centre of a broad emotional spectrum.
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