ABSTRACT This article examines the analogy of birdsong in the Old English Seafarer as an access point for critical and meta-critical discussions regarding the communicative prohibitions and possibilities between birds and humans, literary criticism, and the biosciences. It argues that while the seafarer initially hears the calls of birds within the analogical framework of birdsong, on the ocean such a position is short-lived. The seafarer recalibrates his sense of sound and of song to that of motion, entraining and then attuning his entire motional self to a rhythmic mode of listening. As he “listens” with his body, the seafarer forecloses analogical similarities between his voice and those of birds and participates in an embodied form of bird–human communication that extends entrainment and attunement towards an ethical posture. The Seafarer’s imaginary encounter between birds and humans serves as a model for actual ones. The article argues that embodied listening permits non-analogical moments of bird–human communication and diminishes the communicative barriers between literary criticism and bioscientific research. Turning away from analogy loosens the prohibition on interspecies and interdisciplinary communiqués and permits an “ethics of attunement” to emerge between species and disciplines.

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物种之间和学科之间的交流-来自古老的英国海员的经验教训

摘要本文探讨了古英语海员中鸟鸣的类比，作为鸟与人之间的交流禁令和可能性，文学批评和生物科学的批判性和超批判性讨论的切入点。它认为，尽管海员最初在鸟鸣的类比框架内听到鸟叫，但在海洋上这种位置是短暂的。海员将他的声音和歌曲感觉重新调整为运动感觉，然后将其整个运动自我调动为有节奏的聆听方式。当他“聆听”自己的身体时，海员会取消声音和鸟类声音之间的类比相似性，并参与体现了鸟与人之间的交流，将夹带和调教延伸到道德姿势。海员在鸟类和人类之间进行的虚构接触为实际鸟类提供了模型。文章认为，听觉的体现允许鸟类与人之间进行非类比的交流，并减少了文学批评与生物科学研究之间的交流障碍。放弃类推放松了对种间和跨学科公报的禁止，并允许在物种和学科之间出现“调和伦理”。