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“A private holy spirit in small letters” “用小字书写的私人圣灵”
4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.5840/renascence202173314
Julie Ooms
Scholars regularly read Sylvia Plath biographically, but few have focused on her religious beliefs and their manifestation in her work. This essay explores Plath’s ideas about religion, and about Christianity in particular, as they are articulated in college papers, in her journals, and in her fiction. It argues, finally, that Plath’s wrestling with Christian religious ideas is that of the kind of “cross-pressured” believer characterized by Charles Taylor; she is a humanist atheist tempted by belief.
学者们经常阅读西尔维娅·普拉斯的传记,但很少有人关注她的宗教信仰及其在她作品中的表现。这篇文章探讨了普拉斯关于宗教,尤其是基督教的观点,这些观点在她的大学论文、日记和小说中都有阐述。最后,它认为普拉斯与基督教思想的角力是查尔斯·泰勒(Charles Taylor)所代表的那种“交叉压力”信徒;她是一个受信仰诱惑的人道主义无神论者。
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Modernist Ambivalence about Christianity 现代主义者对基督教的矛盾心理
4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.5840/RENASCENCE20217315
S. Kern
Kern argues that the responses of Friedrich Nietzsche, James Joyce, André Gide, D. H. Lawrence, and Martin Heidegger to Christianity made up a Weberian ideal type. Accordingly: They all were raised as Christians but lost their faith when they began university studies. They all criticized the impact that they believed the anti-sexual Christian morality, with its emphasis on sin, had had, or threatened to have, on their love life. For that reason they were militantly anti-Christian but also ambivalent about Christianity. They worked to replace the loss of Christian unity with non-Christian unifying projects in literature and philosophy. Virginia Woolf, who was raised as an atheist, conformed to many of these elements of the ideal type but added another in criticizing the fragmenting patriarchal society that supported the dominant patriarchal Church of England. She envisioned new man-womanly and woman-manly types who could cultivate their understanding and love for one another in less polarizing and more humanizing ways.
克恩认为,弗里德里希·尼采、詹姆斯·乔伊斯、安德烈·纪德、d·h·劳伦斯和马丁·海德格尔对基督教的回应构成了一种韦伯式的理想类型。因此:他们都是作为基督徒长大的,但当他们开始大学学习时,他们失去了信仰。他们都批评他们所相信的反性的基督教道德,强调罪恶,已经或威胁到他们的爱情生活的影响。因为这个原因,他们激进地反基督教,但对基督教也很矛盾。他们致力于在文学和哲学上用非基督教的统一计划来取代基督教合一的丧失。弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫从小就是一个无神论者,她符合这些理想类型的许多元素,但她还批评了支离破碎的父权社会,这种社会支持着占主导地位的英国父权教会。她设想了新的男-女和女-男类型,他们可以用更少的两极分化和更人性化的方式培养彼此的理解和爱。
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The Burial of the Dead in Mann’s The Magic Mountain 《魔山》中死者的埋葬
4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.5840/RENASCENCE20217314
Pericles Lewis
During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, readers of modernist literature have often been reminded of the flu epidemic of 1918-1920. Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain (1924) anatomizes pre-war bourgeois society as represented by the inmates of a tuberculosis asylum in Davos, Switzerland. The novel typifies a concern in modernist fiction with the proper rites for the burial of the dead, which I explored in an earlier study, Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel. This essay argues that that Mann sees the novel, as a genre, as having a particular ability to represent the process of mourning because of its powers of ironic distancing: it can represent both the public ritual of the funeral service and the private thoughts of the mourner, which may or may not accord with official sentiment. More generally, the modern novel shows how we project our own desires and fears onto the dead.
在2020年的COVID-19大流行期间,现代主义文学的读者经常会想起1918-1920年的流感大流行。托马斯·曼的《魔山》(1924)以瑞士达沃斯肺结核收容所的囚犯为代表,剖析了战前的资产阶级社会。这部小说代表了现代主义小说对埋葬死者的适当仪式的关注,我在之前的研究《宗教体验与现代主义小说》中对此进行了探讨。本文认为,曼恩认为小说作为一种体裁,具有一种特殊的能力来表现哀悼的过程,因为它具有讽刺的距离的力量:它既可以代表葬礼的公共仪式,也可以代表哀悼者的私人思想,这可能与官方的情绪一致,也可能不一致。更普遍的是,现代小说展示了我们如何将自己的欲望和恐惧投射到死者身上。
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“New Knowledge of Lost Worlds”? “失落世界的新知识”?
4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.5840/renascence20217327
Geoffrey Reiter
In contemporary academic circles, the fields of science, theology, and literature may be compartmentalized with relatively little interaction. However, such distinctions were less rigid in the early nineteenth century. One of the figures whose writings stretched across these disciplinary boundaries was Edward Hitchcock, a world-renowned geologist and president of Amherst College who also had extensive theological training. Now best-known among paleontologists for his discovery of fossil footprints in the Connecticut River Valley, Hitchcock made use of his considerable talents in an 1836 poem entitled “The Sandstone Bird.” This poem—often known to historians of science but little remarked among students of American literature—effectively uses formal verse to draw out theological dimensions to the prehistoric world conjured up by Hitchcock’s own paleontological discoveries.
在当代学术界,科学、神学和文学领域可能被划分开来,相互作用相对较少。然而,在19世纪早期,这种区分并没有那么严格。爱德华·希区柯克(Edward Hitchcock)的著作跨越了这些学科的界限,他是世界著名的地质学家,也是阿默斯特学院(Amherst College)的校长,他也接受过广泛的神学训练。现在,希区柯克因在康涅狄格河谷发现化石脚印而在古生物学家中闻名,他在1836年创作了一首名为《砂岩鸟》的诗,充分利用了自己的才华。这首诗通常为科学史家所熟知,但在美国文学的学生中却很少有人注意到它,它有效地用正式的诗句描绘了希区柯克自己的古生物学发现所召唤出来的史前世界的神学维度。
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The Crucifix and the Post 《十字架与邮报
4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.5840/renascence202173312
Brian Barbour
An unremarked major theme in Gulliver's Travels is, Why does Gulliver lose his Christian faith? In Part III he is a devout Anglican who unlike Dutch Calvinists will not disrespect the crucifix, even at the cost of not being allowed to return home. In Part IV he dismisses the crucifix as a "post," a thing "indifferent." What has happened is made clear in Chap. VII where Gulliver's reveals his parodic or inverted conversion to the ruling principle of the Houyhnhnms, that "Reason alone is sufficient to govern a rational creature." For Swift that disastrous alone is a grave error, linking the earlier errors of the Reformation - sola gratia, sola fide, sola scriptura - with the coming darkness of the Enlightenment. Gulliver's loss of faith is predictive of the next phase of European intellectual life.
《格列佛游记》中一个未被注意到的主题是,为什么格列佛失去了他的基督教信仰?在第三部分中,他是一个虔诚的圣公会教徒,与荷兰的加尔文主义者不同,他不会不尊重十字架,即使以不被允许回家为代价。在第四部分中,他将十字架视为一个“柱子”,一个“无关紧要”的东西。在第七章中,格列佛揭示了他对慧骃的统治原则的模仿或反转的转变,即“理性本身足以统治理性的生物”。对斯威夫特来说,这个灾难性的错误本身就是一个严重的错误,它把宗教改革早期的错误——“上帝保佑”、“上帝信仰”、“圣经保佑”——与启蒙运动即将到来的黑暗联系在一起。格列佛失去信仰预示着欧洲知识分子生活的下一个阶段。
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Wells, Chesterton, and a Theology of Semi-detached Reading 威尔斯、切斯特顿和半独立阅读神学
4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.5840/RENASCENCE20217313
M. Knight
This article engages with the work of John Plotz on our experience of being caught between two worlds as we read—a world of fiction that partially absorbs us, and the actual world, to which we remain attached. Noting the lack of attention Plotz pays to religion as he writes about semi-detachment, I respond by developing a theology of semidetached reading. To think through the contribution that theology offers, I turn to two works of fiction: H. G. Wells’s “The Plattner Story” (1896) and G. K. Chesterton’s The Man who was Thursday: A Nightmare (1908). In doing so, I recognize the very different ways in which Wells and Chesterton tease out the strange mix of secular and religious experience that is so important for those who want to understand religion in the modern world. As I go on to argue, paying attention to theology allows to register particular narratives in which people traverse these worlds and seek to hold different threads of meaning together. A theology of semidetached reading can also shed light on the ways in which different worlds are configured, as well as helping us to navigate points of conflict as we move between them.
这篇文章与约翰·普罗茨(John Plotz)关于我们在阅读时被夹在两个世界之间的经历的作品有关——一个是部分吸收我们的虚构世界,另一个是我们仍然依恋的现实世界。注意到普罗茨在写半超然阅读时对宗教缺乏关注,我的回应是发展一种半超然阅读的神学。为了思考神学的贡献,我参考了两部小说:h·g·威尔斯的《普拉特纳的故事》(1896)和g·k·切斯特顿的《星期四的人:噩梦》(1908)。在这样做的过程中,我认识到威尔斯和切斯特顿用非常不同的方式梳理出世俗和宗教经验的奇怪混合,这对那些想要理解现代世界宗教的人来说是非常重要的。正如我继续论证的那样,关注神学可以记录特定的叙事,在这些叙事中,人们穿越这些世界,寻求将不同的意义线索联系在一起。半分离式阅读的神学也可以阐明不同世界的构造方式,并帮助我们在它们之间移动时导航冲突点。
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Introduction: Modernism and the Turn to Religion 导论:现代主义与宗教转向
4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.5840/RENASCENCE20217311
C. Woelfel, Jayme Stayer
This Introduction contextualizes the volume in modernist tensions between belief and unbelief, and subsequent debates about the nature of secularization. An opening moment considers Pound and Woolf’s rejection of T. S. Eliot’s religious conversion as emblematic of a “subtraction” theory of secularization, in which secularity and religious belief are taken as mutually exclusive horizons of understanding. Such thinking, it is argued, has precluded a more nuanced approach. Criticism has largely ignored more complex and fragmentary religious dimensions of modernist production; or, on the other hand, taken up religion only in the narrow and anachronistic sense of traditional Christianity. This volume attempts to explore the religious dimensions of modernism in a more modernist sense: taking modernist art as a critical liminal space for exploring new modes of religious experience in complex and resonant ways -- often in open rejection of traditional modes of faith, and in authors beyond the usual suspects.
本导言将本卷置于现代主义信仰与不信仰之间的紧张关系,以及随后关于世俗化本质的辩论中。一开始,庞德和伍尔夫对艾略特的宗教皈依的拒绝被认为是世俗化“减法”理论的象征,在这种理论中,世俗和宗教信仰被视为相互排斥的理解视野。有人认为,这种想法排除了更细致入微的方法。批评在很大程度上忽略了现代主义作品中更为复杂和零碎的宗教维度;或者,另一方面,只在传统基督教的狭隘和不合时宜的意义上进行宗教活动。本卷试图在更现代主义的意义上探索现代主义的宗教维度:把现代主义艺术作为一个关键的阈值空间,以复杂和共鸣的方式探索宗教经验的新模式-通常在公开拒绝传统的信仰模式,并在作者超越通常的怀疑。
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War as Pornography 战争是色情
4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.5840/renascence202173419
Samuel Hazo
Pornography has been defined as sex separated from personality. In other words, life’s deepest need to express desire and affection and perpetuate the species is reduced to appetite and the satisfaction of appetite. War in many ways does the same. It depersonalizes killing by pitting stranger against stranger—uniformed or otherwise. Fatalities are reduced to numbers. Such killings are dignified by slogans (“Vietnamizing the Vietnamese” or “Operation Iraqi Freedom”),. Preparing troops for the killings in war is everything from oratory to close order drill, parades and honors. Denis de Rougemont in LOVE IIN THE WESTERN WORLD has even traced this to the legend of Tristan and Isolde in which Tristan chooses a military life to define his manhood after leaving Isolde. All of these manifestation and pretenses gloss over the brutality of war just as films, photographs and other promotions disguise pornography as mere excitement.
色情被定义为与人格分离的性。换句话说,生命表达欲望和情感、延续物种的最深层需求被简化为食欲和对食欲的满足。战争在很多方面也是如此。它通过让陌生人对抗穿着制服或其他制服的陌生人,使杀戮失去人格化。死亡人数减少到数字。这种杀戮被口号(“越南人越南化”或“伊拉克自由行动”)所美化。准备军队在战争中杀戮是一切从演讲到结束秩序演习,游行和荣誉。在《西方世界之恋》中,丹尼斯·德·鲁吉蒙甚至把这一点追溯到特里斯坦和伊索尔德的传说,在这个传说中,特里斯坦在离开伊索尔德后选择了一种军事生活来定义他的男子气概。所有这些表现和伪装掩盖了战争的残酷,就像电影、照片和其他宣传把色情伪装成纯粹的刺激一样。
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San Juan de la Cruz and the Cántico Espiritual
4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.5840/renascence202173417
Elizabeth Theresa Howe
The predominant imagery of progress in western mystical writing usually describes some form of ascent. The Subida del monte Carmelo by San Juan de la Cruz certainly suggests the notion in Spanish mystical writing. While San Juan proffers ascent (subida) in the title of the commentary on “En una noche oscura,” the poem proper does not present a sense of verticality at all but, rather, an essentially horizontal passage from the “casa sosegada” to (re)union with the Lover in a static apotheosis described in the final strophes. Similarly, a paradoxical presentation of movement appears in the Cántico espiritual. This article considers San Juan’s use of verbs of movement, especially within the Cántico espiritual, as metaphors for the underlying mystical message he ascribes to his poem. It also demonstrates the presence of the same extended metaphor in other poems of his, including “En una noche oscura” and the “Llama de amor viva.
在西方神秘主义作品中,进步的主要意象通常描述某种形式的上升。圣胡安·德·拉·克鲁兹的《卡梅洛之旅》无疑暗示了西班牙神秘文学中的这一概念。当圣胡安在" En una noche oscura "的评论标题中提出上升(subida)时,这首诗本身并没有呈现出一种垂直感,而是从" casa sosegada "到(重新)与爱人结合的基本水平通道,在最后的诗节中描述了一种静态的神化。类似地,运动的矛盾表现出现在Cántico精神上。本文认为圣胡安使用的动作动词,特别是在Cántico精神,隐喻潜在的神秘信息,他归因于他的诗。这也证明了在他的其他诗歌中同样的延伸隐喻的存在,包括“黑暗的夜晚”和“活泼的爱的羊驼”。
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Slender Self-Knowledge 纤细的自知之明
4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.5840/renascence202173210
David V. Urban
This essay argues that King Lear’s tragedy is largely brought about by Lear’s lack of self-knowledge, a character defect that long precedes the foolish decisions he makes in King Lear’s opening scene and which precipitates his own death and the deaths of those he loves. Lear’s lack of self-knowledge encourages Shakespeare’s audience to have sympathy for Goneril and Regan and to recognize that Lear’s beautiful progress of redemption is mitigated by his failure to ever recognize his longstanding wrongdoing against his elder daughters. By contrast, in Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet’s humble choice to learn and be humbled by Darcy’s letter empowers Elizabeth to achieve self-knowledge at a youthful age even as it brings happiness and numerous redemptive benefits to herself and to those whom she loves.
本文认为李尔王的悲剧很大程度上是由于李尔王缺乏自知之明造成的,这种性格缺陷早在他在《李尔王》开场所做的愚蠢决定之前就存在了,这也促成了他自己和他所爱的人的死亡。李尔王缺乏自知之明,这让莎士比亚的观众对贡纳里尔和里根产生了同情,并意识到李尔王在救赎过程中取得的美好进展,因为他没有意识到自己长期以来对大女儿们犯下的错误。相比之下,在《傲慢与偏见》中,伊丽莎白·班纳特谦卑地选择从达西的信中学习和谦卑,这使伊丽莎白在年轻时就实现了自我认识,尽管这给她自己和她所爱的人带来了幸福和许多救赎的好处。
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