摘要:本計劃採購書籍,以詩為核心,分為三大類:(一) 詩作、(二) 詩論與思潮議題、(三) 詩與非文字藝術。兩年的採購項目皆包含三個類別。第一年度採購重點以英語寫作為主,包括英國(含威爾斯、蘇格蘭)、愛爾蘭、美國、加拿大、以及新興英語國家,如大英國協成員等,第二年度則以其他語言為主,包括東亞的中文、日文,歐洲的法文、德文、西班牙、俄文、希臘文等。所附書單的產生原則乃參照2006年國科會人文處所辦「外文學門熱門及前瞻學術研究議題調查計畫」所提出的文學研究原則、範圍、方向、重點與前瞻趨勢,本計劃第一年規劃書皆是國外各大學術與大學出版社最新(2007-2009)的書單裡經精心挑選而出,並且經過本校圖書館配合複本檢查,皆為確定需要購買的項目,以補足詩學研究的嚴重缺憾。
有關詩的研究在國內外文學門一向居於弱勢,雖然英美文學史在外文系或英語系是最核心的課程,而課程教授的重要文類是詩,真正嚴肅研究詩的學者仍在少數。詩乃文學的菁華,或許因為詩藝的創作與研讀需要對語言本身有較高的掌握與精準的敏銳度,英語又屬於外國語言,所以國內學者往往望而卻步,紛紛轉向較具議題性的文類如小說、戲劇等。關於抒情詩在東西方文學史皆含有革命的氣質。英國的Wordsworth與Coleridge便以Lyrical Ballads《抒情歌謠》的合集(1798),成就新時代文學的濫觴。其實也是兩位對法國大革命懷抱熱情的年輕詩人,在保守勢力高漲的英國,不得不轉移革命激情的目標。從此以後,原本屬於私密性質、不受重視的抒情詩,正式進入文學的莊嚴殿堂。此外,有學者認為中國文學裡敘事詩的傳統微弱,大多數歸類為抒情詩,而在五四新文學運動裡現代抒情詩的正式崛起,也不啻紀念著革命的浪漫情操。本計劃以「抒情詩」為中心,希冀提供國內學者觀照此一文學傳統的重要基礎。
Abstract: This acquisition project aims to procure books concerning lyric poetry. The materials are divided into three categories: poetic texts, poetics and intellectual issues, and poetry and arts. Emphasis of the first year will be placed on materials written in English, including works produced in the British Isles, North America, and other English speaking countries. Emphasis of the second year will be placed on materials written in languages other than English, including Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Greek. The list of books attached in the proposal is generated according to two guidelines. First I refer to the suggestions made in the 2006 NSC report on Studies of Foreign Languages and Literature (外文學門熱門及前瞻學術研究議題調查計畫). Second I use the newest (2007-9) acquisitions of five top international University libraries, including Stanford U, Yale U, Oxford U, Hong Kong U, and Melbourne U, as benchmarks. Furthermore, the list has been checked by our university library to minimize duplicated copies in this country. Therefore, this list stands as the most relevant recommendation of materials for studies of lyric poetry in our country.
Lyric as a genre has occupied an important position since ancient Greek literature. But in the history of English literature it has to wait till the Romantic period for it to be placed at the forefront of literature. Lyrical Ballads (1798), published by Wordsworth and Coleridge in the wake of the French Revolution, announces their radical enthusiasm as well as demonstrates a new breed of poetry. The oral origins of lyric poetry allow them to reach out to the disenfranchised classes. For one thing, the expressive emphasis of lyric permits the poet to elevate the self as a legitimate subject of literary endeavour. Lyric poetry certainly provides a condensed form which contributes to the ascension of individualism.
In the modern Chinese context, lyric poetry has served as a fulcrum in the revolution or renaissance of culture as a whole in the early decades of the 20th century. Poets of the May Fourth movement ushered in a new chapter marked by Romanticism and individualism.
But sad to admit, in the academics of Taiwan, despite that English poetry has always been a staple of the survey course of English literature, the numbers of scholars who actually conducted study of English poetry is rather small. This project seeks to address this deficiency in terms of important texts, contextual materials, criticisms, and relations with other arts, with the hope to generating more arduous interest into this important genre and subject by itself.