Jewett in the Systems Epoch

IF 0.3 2区 文学 0 LITERATURE NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2020-08-01 DOI:10.1215/00295132-8309587
Gabriel Mehlman
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This article focuses on Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, the most famous example of the realist genre of local color. Published in 1898, the novel was written during the very moment of the generic collapse of local color. That collapse occurs within the literary system, in which any work of literature is enfolded—the functionally differentiated system that comprises writers, readers, genres, styles, the critical apparatus, and the publishing apparatus. As Firs stages the death of a small Maine community, it models its own death as a generic instance within the literary system. Firs both encodes and observes the gradual denaturing and collapse of its own classical-realist premises, which cannot abide the drawing into equivalence of character, interiority, and interpersonal communication with the inhuman formalism of systems. In the wake of the collapse of its classical-realist premises, the novel offers a final, speculative vision of a realism for the systems epoch.
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系统时代的杰维特
本文的重点是莎拉·欧恩·朱伊特的《尖杉之国》,这是现实主义乡土色彩流派中最著名的例子。这部小说出版于1898年,是在地方色彩普遍崩溃的时刻写成的。这种崩溃发生在文学系统内,任何文学作品都包含在其中——由作家、读者、体裁、风格、批评机构和出版机构组成的功能分化的系统。作为第一阶段缅因州一个小社区的死亡,它把自己的死亡作为文学系统中的一般实例。首先,它对自己的经典现实主义前提的逐渐变性和崩溃进行了编码和观察,这种前提不能忍受与非人的系统形式主义的性格,内在和人际交往等同。在其古典现实主义前提崩溃之后,小说为系统时代的现实主义提供了一个最终的,投机的愿景。
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期刊介绍: Widely acknowledged as the leading journal in its field, Novel publishes essays concerned with the novel"s role in engaging and shaping the world. To promote critical discourse on the novel, the journal publishes significant work on fiction and related areas of research and theory. Recent issues on the early American novel, eighteenth-century fiction, and postcolonial modernisms carry on Novel"s long-standing interest in the Anglo-American tradition.
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