Meat, Flesh, Skin: The Carnality Of The Secret Agent

IF 0.5 2区文学 0 LITERATURE STUDIES IN THE NOVEL Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI:10.1353/sdn.2024.a921057

Ivan Kreilkamp

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This essay considers Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent in relation to what I will suggest are several relevant intertexts or sources for it—including Upton Sinclair’s famous muckraking 1906 exposé of the conditions in the Chicago stockyards, The Jungle, as well as Classical mythological tales depicting “cannibal feasts.” I point to these sources in order to argue that Conrad uses the novel to consider the question of the overlap between the direct violence of terrorism and the less direct violence of meat production. The novel, I suggest, can be read as an extended meditation on the embodied nature of human flesh.

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肉、肉、皮：特工的肉欲

摘要:这篇文章将康拉德的小说《密探》与我认为的几个相关的互文或资料来源联系起来进行探讨--其中包括厄普顿-辛克莱尔（Upton Sinclair）1906 年揭露芝加哥畜牧场状况的著名揭黑小说《丛林》（The Jungle），以及描写 "食人宴 "的古典神话故事。我指出这些资料来源，是为了论证康拉德利用小说来思考恐怖主义的直接暴力与肉类生产的非直接暴力之间的重叠问题。我认为，这部小说可以被解读为对人类肉体本质的延伸性沉思。

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期刊介绍： From its inception, Studies in the Novel has been dedicated to building a scholarly community around the world-making potentialities of the novel. Studies in the Novel started as an idea among several members of the English Department of the University of North Texas during the summer of 1965. They determined that there was a need for a journal “devoted to publishing critical and scholarly articles on the novel with no restrictions on either chronology or nationality of the novelists studied.” The founding editor, University of North Texas professor of contemporary literature James W. Lee, envisioned a journal of international scope and influence. Since then, Studies in the Novel has staked its reputation upon publishing incisive scholarship on the canon-forming and cutting-edge novelists that have shaped the genre’s rich history. The journal continues to break new ground by promoting new theoretical approaches, a broader international scope, and an engagement with the contemporary novel as a form of social critique.