A Fragmentary Archive: Migratory Feelings in Early Anglo-Saxon Women’s Letters

The letters by Anglo-Saxon women in the Boniface correspondence are connected by cultural practices and emotions centered on the conversion mission that functioned to maintain connections between the Anglo-Saxon diaspora. A striking recurring focus of these letters is on loss and isolation, which connects them to the Old English elegies. Many of the letters describe the writers’ traumatic experiences that result from the death or absence of kin. These are women who endured the trauma of being left behind when others migrated overseas or who, in traveling away from their homeland, found themselves isolated in an alien environment, displaced in time as well as space. This article offers an analysis of the letters, focusing on the queer temporalities they explore, the queer emotions they evoke, and the queer kinships that they forge. It argues that the women’s letters represent fragments of an early queer archive of migratory feelings.     

文学史视野下的赋、骚关系诠辨——兼说“楚声”与“兮”

历来对赋文体的具体定义或界说，存在难以言说清楚的悼难，至于赋、骚亦各持异说：然历来对于骚、赋分体的理由，大概主要集中于带“兮”字的特殊句式或“楚声”的地域性特征。然而从两者来看，“兮”字并非当下《楚辞》唯一的特殊用法，“兮”也并不具有楚地特色；“楚声”一词真正的涵义，不全在于地域性而言。另外，赋、骚也具有共同的文体特征。     

屈原三次流放说考辨

从《楚辞》相关作品表现的具体内容来看，屈原的确曾遭到流放。但由于资料缺乏以及有关的重要文献记载的出入，汉代以来这一问题一直存在着激烈的争论。考察屈原流放的问题，对《楚辞》具体作品的创作时间、历史背景、表现的内容等皆具有极为重要的意义。