中古英语文学中响彻的武器声  

Resounding Weapons in Middle English

作　　者：理查德·G.纽豪瑟 张炼(译) Richard G.Newhauser;Zhang Lian(Arizona State University;School of International Studies,Zhejiang University)

机构地区：[1]宾夕法尼亚大学 [2]亚利桑那州立大学 [3]浙江大学外国语学院

出　　处：《中世纪与文艺复兴研究》2023年第2期19-31,共13页Medieval and Renaissance Studies

摘　　要：中古英语浪漫传奇中,不乏对激战场景和对骑士用仅有的武器进行一对一搏斗的描写。读者和听众从这些间接战斗体验中感受他人的死亡。这不仅会让他们产生恐惧的情绪,也会使他们产生兴奋的参与感。在纯文本阅读产生的间接战斗体验中,武器声响带来听觉振动的物理强度缺失了。不过,即使以抽象方式构思,刺激感觉—行动运作的大脑区域在头部扫描时也同样会亮起来。中古英语浪漫传奇中含有大量对真实声音元素的描写。这一点部分沿袭自法语文学,后者含有对战争中武器碰撞声的描写;同时也继承了英语文学中武器响彻的传统(比如古英语诗歌《出埃及记》)。本文以头韵诗《亚瑟之死》、托马斯·马洛礼《马洛礼作品集》的部分内容以及《高文爵士与绿衣骑士》为例对此进行说明。The vicarious experience of combat involved in watching and hearing death by proxy,either in pitched battles or in one-on-one fighting with a solitary weapon,engaged the senses of readers of,and listeners to,Middle English romances to produce emotions of fear,but also excited engagement.The physical intensity of auditory vibrations produced by resounding weapons is missing in an exclusively textual experience of the experience of war,but the same parts of the brain that stimulate sensory-motor actions light up in brain scans when those actions are conceptualized in an abstract manner.Middle English romances are dependent on the reproduction of lived,sonic elements,they are often descendants of French predecessors that include the clashing noises of weapons in combat,and Middle English inherited an English tradition of resounding weapons(as in the Old English Exodus).I analyze the Alliterative Morte Arthure,parts of Sir Thomas Malory’s Works,and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

关 键 词：中古英语 浪漫传奇 战斗 武器 声音 与战争相关的声音 感官学 情感 

分 类 号：I106[文学—世界文学]