Abstract This essay argues that both sides of the continuing debate about whether Lydgate’s Troy Book is more interested in political legitimation or admonition have not understood the form of the poem. It claims that this form is, surprisingly, akin to that of postmodern memorial monuments, such as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which provide a framework for a trans-temporal communal negotiation of values that is ambivalent and underdetermined by design. Scrutinizing Lydgate’s use of the term memorial and depiction of memorial monuments (especially those for Hecuba and Hector) across the breadth of the poem and in light of its source, the essay demonstrates how the poem’s apparent contradictions or confusions are in fact expressions of its informing idea. In conclusion, the essay reflects on the implications of its argument and anachronistic methodology for the conceptual and methodological confines of synchronic historicism and, more generally, for the relation between historical contingency and aesthetic objects.

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约翰·里德盖特的《特洛伊书》的纪念形式

摘要本文认为，关于利德盖特的《特洛伊书》对政治合法性或告诫更感兴趣的持续辩论的双方都没有理解这首诗的形式。它声称，这种形式令人惊讶地类似于后现代纪念性建筑的形式，例如越南退伍军人纪念物，它为跨时域的公共价值谈判提供了框架，这种谈判是模棱两可的，并且是由设计决定的。仔细研究Lydgate在诗歌的广度上对“纪念馆”一词的使用和纪念性纪念馆的描绘（尤其是Hecuba和Hector的纪念馆），并根据其来历，论证了诗歌的明显矛盾或困惑实际上是其所表达的信息的表达。主意。综上所述，