Signifying Difference

IF 0.2 0 LITERATURE, ROMANCE Romanic Review Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.1215/00358118-9091109
A. Wettlaufer
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This essay considers the ways in which Honoré de Balzac and George Sand, an influential pair of “public writers” who were committed to diametrically opposing sociopolitical discourses, constructed aspects of their authorial identities and indeed the social import of their oeuvres in a self-conscious exchange with, and about, one another. In letters, novels, memoirs, and paratexts from their first encounter in the early 1830s to the end of their careers, Balzac and Sand portrayed, parodied, quoted, misquoted, alluded to, wrote, and rewrote each other in ways that their contemporary readers would doubtless have recognized. In considering some of these various invocations in terms of a larger dialogue between this pair of influential authors, surprising intersections emerge that complicate our current conceptions of the relationship between Balzac’s and Sand’s works. Reflecting on the dialogical generation of meaning, I trace the ways in which reading Balzac and Sand together reveals a complex and continuing conversation between the two authors about similarity, difference, and the dialectical nature of identity. This ongoing intertextual exchange, I argue, helps us see how their literary, social, and political positions as “public writers” were to some extent dependent on constructions of each other.
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这篇文章考虑了巴尔扎克和乔治·桑这对有影响力的“公众作家”的方式,他们致力于截然相反的社会政治话语,在自我意识的交流中构建了他们的作者身份和他们的作品的社会意义。巴尔扎克和桑德从19世纪30年代初的第一次相遇到他们职业生涯的结束,在信件、小说、回忆录和文本中,他们相互描绘、模仿、引用、误引、暗指、写作和重写对方的方式,他们同时代的读者无疑已经认识到了。在考虑到这对有影响力的作家之间更大的对话方面的一些不同的调用时,令人惊讶的交集出现了,使我们目前对巴尔扎克和桑德作品之间关系的概念复杂化。反思意义的对话生成,我追溯了一起阅读巴尔扎克和沙的方式,揭示了两位作者之间关于相似性、差异和身份的辩证本质的复杂而持续的对话。我认为,这种持续的互文交流有助于我们看到,他们作为“公众作家”的文学、社会和政治立场,在某种程度上是如何依赖于彼此的建构的。
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Romanic Review Arts and Humanities-Arts and Humanities (all)
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期刊介绍: The Romanic Review is a journal devoted to the study of Romance literatures.Founded by Henry Alfred Todd in 1910, it is published by the Department of French and Romance Philology of Columbia University in cooperation with the Departments of Spanish and Italian. The journal is published four times a year (January, March, May, November) and balances special thematic issues and regular unsolicited issues. It covers all periods of French, Italian and Spanish-language literature, and welcomes a broad diversity of critical approaches.
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