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Ishmael’s Night of Rest and Relaxation 以实玛利的休息和放松之夜
Pub Date : 2021-09-29 DOI: 10.18422/71-05
Rieke Jordan
My article on Moby-Dick explores the juxtaposition of self and other, alienation and community, friendship and leisure. By way of the book’s famous fourth chapter, “The Counterpane,” I argue that repose, conceived as a way of spending time, exposes some of the contradictions of the capitalist dictum of industriousness. The quilt that features so prominently in the chapter is to be underestood as a figure of resting and relaxing, which accumulates a patchwork of additional meanings through Ishmael’s contradictory experiences during the night at the Spouter-Inn with Queequeg.
我关于《白鲸》的文章探讨了自我与他人、疏离与社区、友谊与休闲的并置。通过书中著名的第四章“被单”(the Counterpane),我认为,作为一种消磨时间的方式,休息暴露了资本主义勤勉格言的一些矛盾。在这一章中如此突出的被子应该被理解为一个休息和放松的形象,通过以实玛利和魁魁格在斯波特旅馆过夜的矛盾经历,它积累了额外意义的拼凑。
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Data, Maps, Networks – Digital Approaches to Reading (in) Nineteenth-Century Literature 数据,地图,网络-阅读(在)十九世纪文学的数字方法
Pub Date : 2021-09-29 DOI: 10.18422/71-02
Regina Schober
Recently, there has been a growing number of scholarly attempts to ‘read’ the 19th century either through digital methods or, more specifically as a precursor to contemporary digital culture. The practice of reading is a category through which the two dimensions of spending time in and with the nineteenth century can be thought together. A focus on reading, as a way to spend time in/with the nineteenth century makes us aware of both the knowledge systems and methodologies of accessing and processing information, both in literary texts of that period and simultaneously in our own work. More specifically, my essay is interested in questions of ‘readability’ and the ‘crisis of reading’, as self-reflexively pronounced in two nineteenth century novels: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and Frank Norris’s The Octopus. These novels, I argue, prefigure debates that are well-known to us and that materialize in the opposition between what Katherine Hayles has called “hyperreading” vs linear or immersive reading, between the New Critic’s formulation of close reading and what Franco Moretti has provocatively called “distant reading”, or the postcritical distinction between symptomatic and surface reading. By discussing different strategies of reading, the novels express the uncontrollability in view of increasing information environments. Yet, even if these webs of signification are elusive and at times dangerous, both novels, in a self-reflexive move, express a desire of writing the human reader into this web of signification and therefore to emphasize the significance of reading in an increasingly automated world.
最近,越来越多的学者试图通过数字方法“阅读”19世纪,或者更具体地说,将其作为当代数字文化的先驱。阅读实践是一个范畴,通过它可以将在19世纪和与19世纪相处的两个维度结合起来思考。专注于阅读,作为一种与19世纪相处的方式,使我们意识到获取和处理信息的知识体系和方法,无论是在那个时期的文学文本中,还是在我们自己的作品中。更具体地说,我的文章对“可读性”和“阅读危机”的问题感兴趣,这在两部19世纪的小说中都有自我反射的表现:赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》和弗兰克·诺里斯的《章鱼》。我认为,这些小说预示着我们所熟知的辩论,这些辩论体现在凯瑟琳·海尔斯所说的“超阅读”与线性或沉浸式阅读之间的对立,新评论家对近距离阅读的表述与弗兰科·莫雷蒂所挑衅性地称之为“远距离阅读”之间的对立中,或者症状阅读和表面阅读之间的后批判性区别中。通过讨论不同的阅读策略,小说表达了在日益增长的信息环境下的不可控制性。然而,即使这些意义网是难以捉摸的,有时是危险的,这两部小说都以自我反射的方式表达了将人类读者写进意义网的愿望,从而强调在一个日益自动化的世界中阅读的意义。
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Spending Time in the Nineteenth Century 在19世纪度过时光
Pub Date : 2021-09-29 DOI: 10.18422/71-01
Rieke Jordan
This special issue of New American Studies Journal: A Forum looks at nineteenth-century American literature and culture through the analytical lens of free time and leisure. This analytical framework affords a novel access point to American literary history—free time, as this special issue will explore, is a highly contested and politicized concept and resource of the nineteenth century, one that restructures temporalities and spaces. Nineteenth-century American culture and literature can be understood as an archive to explore free time as a significant social and economic innovation into the texture of individual life. The contributions to this special issue explore the rise of free time in the nineteenth century with particular attention toward temporal and spatial reconfigurations that free time afforded. Furthermore they explore the societal and cultural aspects of free time that grew around the logics and logistics of nineteenth-century capitalism—a social formation that made leisure, time off work, not merely possible, but that created entire industries and spaces for leisure and repose.
本期《新美国研究杂志:一个论坛》特刊通过自由时间和休闲的分析视角来审视19世纪的美国文学和文化。这个分析框架为美国文学史提供了一个新颖的切入点——自由时间,正如本期特刊将探讨的,是十九世纪一个高度争议和政治化的概念和资源,它重构了时间和空间。19世纪的美国文化和文学可以被理解为一个档案馆,探索自由时间作为一个重要的社会和经济创新进入个人生活的纹理。本期特刊的文章探讨了19世纪自由时间的兴起,特别关注自由时间所带来的时间和空间重构。此外,他们还探讨了围绕19世纪资本主义的逻辑和物流而发展起来的自由时间的社会和文化方面——这种社会形态不仅使休闲、下班时间成为可能,而且创造了休闲和休息的整个行业和空间。
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Melville’s Majestic Missive:“Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” 梅尔维尔庄严的书信:“记录者巴特比:华尔街的故事”
Pub Date : 2021-09-29 DOI: 10.18422/71-04
A. Urie
In keeping with the spirit of American Studies, this article engages in an interdisciplinary examination of Herman Melville’s short story, “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” (1853). Employing a broad literary-critical-historical methodology that also incorporates cultural and social theory, I sociohistorically contextualize “Bartleby” and demonstrate how this stylistically innovative short story anticipated later works of modernist, existential, and postmodern literature. Now internationally renowned as a classic of American literature, “Bartleby” is of interest not only for its historically innovative style––which continues to resonate with contemporary readers––but also for how it potentially serves as Melville’s self-reflexive meditation on his then declining literary career.
为了与美国研究的精神保持一致,本文对赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的短篇小说《抄写员巴特比:华尔街故事》(1853)进行了跨学科的研究。运用广泛的文学-批评-历史方法论,也结合了文化和社会理论,我将《巴特比》置于社会历史的语境中,并展示了这个风格创新的短篇小说如何预示了后来的现代主义、存在主义和后现代文学作品。如今,作为美国文学的经典之作,《巴特比》在国际上享有盛名,它之所以引人入胜,不仅是因为它具有历史意义的创新风格——这种风格仍在当代读者中引起共鸣——还因为它可能成为梅尔维尔对当时衰落的文学生涯的自我反思。
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“No-Body’s Watch”: Nineteenth-Century Capitalism, Temporality, and the Figure of the Loafer “没有人的手表”:19世纪的资本主义、暂时性和高利贷者的形象
Pub Date : 2021-09-29 DOI: 10.18422/71-06
Karin Hoepker
This article outlines the rather obscure ascent and fall of the loafer as a cultural figure. Beginning with the emergence of the term and its ambivalent semantics of idleness, I will sketch its subsequent racialization and regionalization, as it was appropriated by abolitionist writers who associated with whiteness, poverty, and southern masculinity. The significance of the term lies in the way it combines criticisms of capitalism and racism in a figure of idleness. A figure of idleness, both in its romanticized and disparaging connotations, the loafer alerts us to the fact that US nineteenth-century temporality is closely and inseparably entangled in the history of capitalism and slavery.
这篇文章概述了游手好闲者作为一个文化人物的相当模糊的起起落落。从这个词的出现和它对懒惰的矛盾语义开始,我将概述它随后的种族化和区域化,因为它被废奴主义作家挪用,他们把它与白人、贫困和南方男子气概联系在一起。这个词的意义在于,它把对资本主义和种族主义的批评结合在一个懒散的形象中。游民是一个懒散的形象,在其浪漫化和贬低的内涵中,他提醒我们这样一个事实,即美国19世纪的时间性与资本主义和奴隶制的历史紧密地、不可分割地纠缠在一起。
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Making Love Public: The Paradoxes of Intimacy in Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove 公开爱:亨利·詹姆斯《鸽子的翅膀》中的亲密悖论
Pub Date : 2021-09-29 DOI: 10.18422/71-03
Magda Majewska
This article focuses on the paradoxes pertaining to romantic love in Henry James’ The Wings of the Dove. Drawing on love sociology (Luhmann, Illouz) it explores the ways in which James places the love and courtship of his protagonists Merton Densher and Kate Croy in a complex and shifting relation to the private and the public. As sociologists and cultural historians inform us, “romantic love“—a notion that links love and marriage—emerged only in the late 18th century as an ideal advocated by sentimentalism and romanticism and then gained popularity throughout the 19th century. Its emergence was concomitant with the rise of the middle class, the rise of the novel, and the growing separation of the private and the public spheres. Indeed, as Niklas Luhmann argues in his seminal study Love as Passion, the differentiation of the private or intimate sphere—a sphere defined by personal/intimate relations as opposed to impersonal ones—begins with the cultural codification of love. It was only after love and marriage became linked that marriage gained its status as a private affair and the family came to be regarded as the sphere of privacy. This already suggests a paradox built into the idea of romantic love: while love came to be understood as the most intimate relation between two people and as central for the demarcation of the private sphere, it also needed to be made public in order to remain what it was. This paradox is reflected in one of the major ironies of James’ novel: Kate’s decision neither to publicly acknowledge their relationship nor to conduct it in secret, but rather to appear publicly and act privately as if there was nothing to disavow in the first place, leads to the disintegration of their intimate bond. Suggesting that the performative effects of Kate and Merton’s public actions eventually render their intimate bond nonexistent, James exposes the paradox at the heart of romantic love.
本文着重探讨亨利·詹姆斯的《鸽子的翅膀》中浪漫爱情的悖论。它借鉴了爱情社会学(Luhmann,Illouz),探讨了詹姆斯如何将主人公默顿·丹舍和凯特·克罗伊的爱情和求爱置于一种复杂而多变的私人和公众关系中。正如社会学家和文化历史学家告诉我们的那样,“浪漫的爱情“——一个将爱情和婚姻联系在一起的概念——在18世纪末才作为感伤主义和浪漫主义倡导的理想出现,然后在整个19世纪广受欢迎。它的出现伴随着中产阶级的崛起、小说的兴起以及私人和公共领域的日益分离tudy爱即激情,私人或亲密领域的区分——一个由个人/亲密关系与非个人关系定义的领域——始于爱的文化编纂。只有在爱情和婚姻联系在一起之后,婚姻才获得了私人事务的地位,家庭才被视为隐私范围。这已经表明了浪漫爱情思想中的一个悖论:虽然爱情被理解为两个人之间最亲密的关系,是划分私人领域的核心,但它也需要公开,才能保持原样。这种悖论反映在詹姆斯小说中的一个主要讽刺中:凯特决定既不公开承认他们的关系,也不秘密进行,而是公开露面,私下行事,就好像一开始没有什么可否认的一样,这导致了他们亲密关系的破裂。詹姆斯暗示凯特和默顿公开行为的表演效果最终使他们的亲密关系不存在,他揭露了浪漫爱情的核心矛盾。
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The Digital Classroom: A Digital Humanities Primer on Tools, Methods, and Resources 数字课堂:关于工具、方法和资源的数字人文入门
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18422/70-03
Oliver Moisich
This article will focus on teaching with digital humanities (DH) methods and tools as they relate to their practicability in the context of the classroom. It will concentrate on the specific challenges that the teaching of computational methods pose to educators who are experts in their discipline but might feel that they lack the technical know-how to steer their students towards DH. In particular, the article will introduce a number of tools that allow school students and educators to access digital approaches and to start appreciating their relevance for research. These include online resources for literary analysis, simple programs that may be used for research into media, and archival projects that stem from the collaboration of students and staff and bring neglected histories to an outside audience. While these tools do not demand any practical programming knowledge, I will also present resources that teach widely used coding languages such as Python and R on a step-by-step basis. The third and final part of the article will introduce a number of methods and services that empower educators to create a digital classroom with quantitative approaches and distant learning as their primary characteristics. Teaching these methods might prove challenging at first.; yet the hands-on, collaborative, quality of DH also leads to classroom situations in which students and staff become co-learners, and therefore leads to a democratizing effect.
本文将重点介绍数字人文学科(DH)方法和工具的教学,因为它们与课堂环境中的实用性有关。它将侧重于计算方法教学对教育工作者构成的具体挑战,这些教育工作者是本学科的专家,但可能觉得自己缺乏引导学生攻读博士学位的技术知识。特别是,本文将介绍一些工具,使学校学生和教育工作者能够访问数字方法,并开始欣赏它们与研究的相关性。其中包括文学分析的在线资源,可用于媒体研究的简单程序,以及源于学生和教职员工合作的档案项目,这些项目将被忽视的历史带给外部受众。虽然这些工具不需要任何实际的编程知识,但我还将提供一些资源,逐步教授广泛使用的编码语言,如Python和R。本文的第三部分也是最后一部分将介绍一些方法和服务,这些方法和服务使教育工作者能够创建一个以定量方法和远程学习为主要特征的数字课堂。教授这些方法一开始可能会很有挑战性。然而,教学实践、合作的品质,也导致学生和教师成为共同学习者的课堂情境,从而产生民主化效应。
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On Democracy of Digression: Chapter 30 of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick 论离题民主:赫尔曼·梅尔维尔《白鲸》第30章
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18422/69-02
M. Kimmage
This essay focuses on chapter 30 of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, one of the novel’s shortest chapters. It contrasts bigness, destiny and Captain Ahab’s authoritarian abuse of power with smallness, free will, and digression, the democratic virtues portrayed in Moby-Dick mostly through their absence but also, in chapter 30, by their presence in the form of a pipe that Captain Ahab smokes on deck and is then compelled to toss overboard so that The Pequod might complete is star-crossed and disastrously foreshadowed voyage.
本文以赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的小说《白鲸》的第30章为重点,这是小说中最短的章节之一。它将伟大,命运和亚哈船长的专制滥用权力与《白鲸记》中描绘的民主美德——渺小,自由意志和离间——进行了对比,这些美德主要是通过它们的缺失来体现的,但在第30章中,它们也以烟斗的形式出现了,亚哈船长在甲板上抽烟,然后被迫把烟斗扔到海里,这样“裴廓德号”就可以完成命运多端和灾难性的预示。
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Introduction: Digital Pedagogy in American Studies 导论:美国研究中的数字教学法
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18422/70-01
I. Gessner, U. Küchler
As we are writing the introduction to this special issue we are looking back on the online summer semester 2020, which has profoundly and perhaps lastingly impacted how we do American Studies, not least by pushing us to embrace digital technologies to an extent unimaginable half a year ago. Did we really need a viral pandemic to provide the necessary push for some of our colleagues to become (more) digitally naturalized? Of course not. On the other hand, we would have appreciated practical guidelines and offers of technical support for our digital teaching ideas (as most universities have provided them in the last months) much earlier. Yet, most of these offerings were merely technological or only contained a list of tools available. How can we think critically about our tools, and how can we implement them successfully?
在我们撰写本期特刊的介绍时,我们正在回顾2020年的在线夏季学期,它深刻地、也许是持久地影响了我们做美国研究的方式,尤其是推动我们接受数字技术,达到半年前难以想象的程度。我们真的需要一场病毒大流行来推动我们的一些同事变得(更加)数字化吗?当然不是。另一方面,我们也希望能更早地为我们的数字化教学理念提供实用指导和技术支持(就像大多数大学在过去几个月里提供的那样)。然而,这些产品中的大多数仅仅是技术性的,或者只包含可用工具的列表。我们如何批判性地思考我们的工具,以及我们如何成功地实施它们?
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“I Think They Are Irresponsible”: Teaching Sustainability with (Counter)Narratives in the EFL Classroom “我认为他们是不负责任的”:在英语课堂上运用(反)叙事教学的可持续性
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18422/70-06
Joannis Kaliampos, Martin Kohl
“Going Green—Education for Sustainability,” a German-American blended learning project for the EFL and STEM classrooms, asks students to challenge commonly held stereotypes about how both cultures approach sustainable development. Since the pilot project (2014), over 3,000 secondary school students in Germany and the US have enrolled in a shared learning management system (Moodle), worked collaboratively both online and offline, developed green action plans and shared them with the school and wider community as part of a competition. This article outlines the conceptual perspective of Going Green that includes the aspects of (a) teaching ‘publics,’ (b) countering expectations and misconceptions, (c) raising awareness of counter-narratives, and (d) expanding the knowledge base of the target culture (sustainable policies in the US). These components together facilitate learning objectives beyond interactional and communicative competencies by promoting learner agency and community-based actions. Attitudinal data drawn from the last two project cycles (2016–17, 2017–18) reflect a heterogeneous view of learners’ expectations and understandings regarding sustainable policies in the US and Germany. Finally, we investigate how narratives and counter-narratives of sustainable development on both sides of the Atlantic can be exploited in the technology-enhanced foreign language classroom in order to facilitate the aforementioned goals.
“走向绿色教育促进可持续发展”是一个德美混合学习项目,针对英语和STEM教室,要求学生挑战关于两种文化如何实现可持续发展的普遍刻板印象。自试点项目(2014年)以来,德国和美国的3000多名中学生注册了共享学习管理系统(Moodle),在线上和线下协同工作,制定绿色行动计划,并与学校和更广泛的社区分享,作为竞赛的一部分。本文概述了走向绿色的概念视角,包括(a)教育“公众”,(b)反对期望和误解,(c)提高对反叙事的认识,以及(d)扩大目标文化的知识库(美国的可持续政策)。通过促进学习者能动性和以社区为基础的行动,这些组成部分共同促进了超越互动和交际能力的学习目标。从最近两个项目周期(2016 - 17,2017 - 18)中得出的态度数据反映了学习者对美国和德国可持续政策的期望和理解的不同观点。最后,我们研究了如何在技术增强的外语课堂中利用大西洋两岸可持续发展的叙述和反叙述,以促进上述目标的实现。
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