The Shropshire Redemption: John Audelay’s Carols, Repetition, and Confessional Authority

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Andrew Finn
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In this essay, I analyze the extent to which repetition can be considered creative in the context of penitential poetry, and what the ramifications are of that pairing for our own understandings of that poetry. When sin is inherited and confessions were guided by eminently repeatable formulae, how does penitential poetry come into being for the first time and enter penitential discourse as a “makyng” that is created or made yet already received, already repeated and circulating at the moment of its birth? The carol, I argue, presents a good place to address that question: its idiosyncratic formal components present a site of creativity and repetition between text and audience, a conjunction which anticipates the dynamics of filmic montage as conceived by Sergei Eisenstein. This aspect of the carol also invites us to explore how authority is created and received in the present moment, bereft of the difference from the present moment so often involved in constructing auctoritas. In conversation with Eisenstein, the medieval penitential carol ultimately becomes a site to reconsider how poetic form can simultaneously uphold and dismantle hierarchical relationships between creators and audiences. In so doing, the penitential carol invites us to re-approach our own critical “makyngs,” which effectively channel the work of medieval poetic form from centuries past.

什罗普郡的救赎:约翰-奥德雷的颂歌、重复和忏悔权威
在这篇文章中,我将分析在忏悔诗的语境中,重复在多大程度上可被视为具有创造性,以及这种配对对我们自己理解忏悔诗有何影响。当罪孽是遗传的,忏悔是以极易重复的公式为指导的时候,忏悔诗是如何首次出现并作为一种 "创造 "进入忏悔话语的,这种 "创造 "在其诞生的那一刻就已经被创造或被创造,已经被接受,已经被重复和流传?我认为,颂歌为解决这一问题提供了一个很好的场所:其特异的形式组成部分为文本与观众之间的创造和重复提供了场所,这种结合预示了谢尔盖-爱森斯坦(Sergei Eisenstein)所构想的电影蒙太奇的动态。这首颂歌的这一特点也促使我们探索在当下如何创造和接受权威,因为在构建 "权威 "的过程中,往往会与 "当下 "脱节。在与爱森斯坦的对话中,中世纪忏悔颂歌最终成为重新思考诗歌形式如何同时维护和瓦解创作者与受众之间等级关系的场所。在此过程中,忏悔颂歌邀请我们重新审视我们自己的批判性 "makyngs",这些 "makyngs "有效地引导了几个世纪以来中世纪诗歌形式的工作。
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NEOPHILOLOGUS
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期刊介绍: Neophilologus is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of modern and medieval language and literature, including literary theory, comparative literature, philology and textual criticism. The languages of publication are English, French, German and Spanish.
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