{"title":"Saul Bellow’s Gothic Ontology: The Victim and More Die of Heartbreak","authors":"Andrew Smith","doi":"10.1353/pan.2024.a916704","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Saul Bellow’s “Gothic Ontology: The Victim and More Die of Heartbreak” examines the different types of Gothic employed by Saul Bellow in The Victim (1947) and More Die of Heartbreak (1987). The article argues that in The Victim Gothic doubling becomes erased by an idea of hospitality which challenges the status of the Gothic “other.” This is contrasted with More Die of Heartbreak where the Gothic is used in order to critically read the psychological and emotional damage caused by a materialist culture. The article explores Bellow’s complex engagement with the Gothic and examines how he employs the Gothic to raise questions about ontology and materialism.","PeriodicalId":516166,"journal":{"name":"Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2024.a916704","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Saul Bellow’s “Gothic Ontology: The Victim and More Die of Heartbreak” examines the different types of Gothic employed by Saul Bellow in The Victim (1947) and More Die of Heartbreak (1987). The article argues that in The Victim Gothic doubling becomes erased by an idea of hospitality which challenges the status of the Gothic “other.” This is contrasted with More Die of Heartbreak where the Gothic is used in order to critically read the psychological and emotional damage caused by a materialist culture. The article explores Bellow’s complex engagement with the Gothic and examines how he employs the Gothic to raise questions about ontology and materialism.
摘要:索尔-贝娄的《哥特式本体论:Victim and More Die of Heartbreak "探讨了索尔-贝娄在《受害者》(1947)和《更多人心碎》(1987)中运用的不同哥特式。文章认为,在《受害者》中,哥特式的双重性被一种 "好客 "的观念所抹杀,这种观念挑战了哥特式 "他者 "的地位。这与《更多的心碎》形成了鲜明对比,在后者中,哥特式被用来批判性地解读物质主义文化所造成的心理和情感伤害。文章探讨了贝娄与哥特式的复杂关系,并研究了他如何利用哥特式提出关于本体论和唯物主义的问题。