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Limits of Narrative: Introduction 叙述的局限:引言
4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2022.0012
Samuli Björninen, M. Polvinen
Abstract:The introduction to this forum lays out the background for the theoretical issues concerning the limits of narrative, and sets the individual articles in the context of that larger debate.
摘要:本论坛的导言列出了有关叙事局限性的理论问题的背景,并将个别文章置于更大的辩论背景中。
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Dancing with the Posthumans: Readerly Choreographies and More-than-Human Figures 与后人类共舞:读者编舞和超越人类的人物
4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2022.0016
Kaisa Kortekallio
Abstract:Drawing on feminist, enactivist and posthumanist theories of reading, the essay develops theoretical and methodological tools for bodily and reflective reading of fictional figures. It introduces the notion of “readerly choreography,” which stands for the iterative experiential patterns that fictional narratives suggest. The primary purpose of the notion is to provide a better grasp of readerly dynamics typical to genre-derived works of fiction — including the cases in which generic frames of expectation and experience are estranged and reconfigured. The essay’s contribution to theory is presented on the basis of a reading of Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The People of Sand and Slag” (2004). This short story plays on the conventions of action-adventure, exaggerating the toughness and physical capabilities of technologically enhanced, posthuman action heroes. Owing to this exaggeration, it becomes difficult for readers to continue to perform the habitual experiential patterns of excitement, action-derived pleasure, and identification with the heroic protagonist. In other words, “The People of Sand and Slag” estranges the readerly choreography of action-adventure narratives.
摘要:本文借鉴女性主义、行动主义和后人类主义的阅读理论,发展了小说人物身体阅读和反思性阅读的理论和方法工具。它引入了“读者编排”的概念,它代表了虚构叙事所暗示的迭代体验模式。这个概念的主要目的是为了更好地把握体裁衍生小说作品的典型读者动态——包括期望和经验的一般框架被疏远和重新配置的情况。这篇文章对理论的贡献是在阅读保罗·巴西加卢皮的《沙和渣的人》(2004)的基础上提出的。这个短篇故事运用了动作冒险的传统,夸大了技术增强的后人类动作英雄的韧性和身体能力。由于这种夸张,读者很难继续表现出习惯性的体验模式,如兴奋、行动衍生的快乐和对英雄主角的认同。换句话说,《沙渣族》疏远了动作冒险叙事的读者编排。
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New Russian Modernist Studies 新俄罗斯现代主义研究
4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2022.0020
Edward Waysband
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Narratives on the Large Scale: Historical Narrative Explanations in Popular Science Writing 大尺度叙事:科普写作中的历史叙事解释
4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2022.0013
Juha Raipola
Abstract:In the recent past, narratives have been hailed as a promising instrument for improving the effectiveness of science communication to nonscientist audiences. Narratives play an important part in how individuals comprehend the world, and persuasive narratives may often be more successful in communicating complex scientific issues to the general public than evidence-based arguments. At the same time, however, narratives have the potential to perpetuate misinformation and inaccuracies about science due to their formal characteristics. Also, as narratives are not subject to the same truth requirements as scientific argumentation, they cannot be easily countered, which can lead to serious misconceptions about important scientific topics. In this article, the role of narratives and narrative explanations in science communication is discussed regarding the genre of popular science. The essay approaches the affordances and limits of narrative in this context with two primary examples representing recent popular-science best-sellers: Elisabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014) and Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011).In theoretical literature concerning narratives in science communication and popular science, the concept of narrative tends to be applied rather loosely, encompassing everything from journalistic accounts of scientific research to sequential explanations of change in natural systems. As many of the discourse types of popular science involve representations of temporal change in the non-human natural world, they necessarily also create “narratives” that do not easily fill all the characteristics of prototypical narrative representations. This article takes a closer look at the narrative qualities of science popularization, focusing especially on popular scientific “histories” featuring human species as their main protagonist. The aim is to explore this topic further by a more comprehensive categorization of different kinds of narratives and narrative explanations in the selected popular scientific texts. With this theoretical emphasis, the article will contribute to a fuller understanding of the affordances and limitations of narrative in addressing scientific issues.
摘要:近年来,叙事被誉为提高对非科学家受众的科学传播有效性的一种有前途的工具。叙述在个人如何理解世界方面发挥着重要作用,在向公众传达复杂的科学问题时,有说服力的叙述往往比基于证据的论点更成功。然而,与此同时,由于叙述的形式特征,叙述有可能使关于科学的错误信息和不准确信息永久化。此外,由于叙述不像科学论证那样受真理要求的约束,它们不容易被反驳,这可能导致对重要科学主题的严重误解。本文从科普的体裁出发,探讨了叙事和叙事解释在科学传播中的作用。本文通过两个代表最近的科普畅销书的主要例子来探讨这种背景下叙事的支持和局限性:伊丽莎白·科尔伯特的《第六次灭绝:一部非自然的历史》(2014)和尤瓦尔·诺亚·哈拉里的《智人:人类简史》(2011)。在关于科学传播和大众科学叙事的理论文献中,叙事的概念往往应用得相当松散,涵盖了从科学研究的新闻报道到自然系统变化的顺序解释的所有内容。由于科普的许多话语类型都涉及到非人类自然世界中时间变化的表征,它们必然也会创造出不容易填补原型叙事表征所有特征的“叙事”。本文着重探讨了科普的叙事特质,特别是以人类为主角的科普“史”。目的是通过对选定的科普文本中不同类型的叙事和叙事解释进行更全面的分类,进一步探讨这一主题。有了这个理论的重点,文章将有助于更全面地了解叙述在解决科学问题中的优点和局限性。
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Strange Tools and Dark Materials: Speculating Beyond Narratives with Philosophical Instruments 奇怪的工具和黑暗的材料:用哲学工具推测叙事之外的东西
4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2022.0015
Essi Varis
Abstract:Although Alva Noë’s Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature (2015) makes no direct reference to Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy (1995–2000), these otherwise dissimilar works share an astonishingly similar and current view of the mind: both Noë and Pullman construe cognition as embodied action that extends and reflects on its own possibilities through various instruments and technologies. For Noë, the key technology aiding this reaching of the mind is art; making and engaging with art is a self-reflexive endeavor that makes our activities available for closer examination and evaluation. By extension, works of speculative fiction could be read as illustrations of or investigations into speculative, imaginative cognition.In case of Pullman’s trilogy, this is certainly true as it incorporates several explicit commentaries on John Keats’ notion of negative capability, which is closely linked to imagination and creative cognition. Moreover, Pullman illustrates his characters’ negative capabilities through very particular ”strange tools”: the Golden Compass, the Subtle Knife, and the Amber Spyglass. These imaginary instruments serve the dual purpose of, first, modifying affordances, i.e. the ways the characters can respond to their changing situations, and second, making these speculative cognitive processes more visible to the readers.Ultimately, the analysis of the trilogy suggests that skillful speculation entails at least two subskills: first, the ability to see as full a range of actionable possibilities as possible and, second, the ability to choose and act on the most suitable one. In the 4E framework, which views the mind as embodied, extended and action-oriented, speculation and imagination could thus be defined as especially extensive and flexible use of affordances. As such, speculation is something that always oveflows the limits of narrative. Like other forms of art, narrative is merely a tool for modifying and highlighting the affordances at its disposal.
摘要:虽然阿尔瓦Noë的《奇怪的工具:艺术与人性》(2015)并没有直接参考菲利普·普尔曼的《黑暗物质三部曲》(1995-2000),但这些不同的作品却有着惊人的相似和当前的思维观点:Noë和普尔曼都将认知理解为通过各种工具和技术扩展和反思自身可能性的体现行为。对于Noë来说,帮助心灵到达的关键技术是艺术;创作和参与艺术是一种自我反思的努力,使我们的活动可以进行更仔细的检查和评估。推而广之,思辨小说作品可以被解读为对思辨、想象认知的例证或调查。在普尔曼的三部曲中,这当然是正确的,因为它包含了对约翰济慈的消极能力概念的几条明确的评论,这与想象力和创造性认知密切相关。此外,普尔曼通过非常特殊的“奇怪的工具”来说明他的角色的消极能力:黄金罗盘、微妙的刀和琥珀望远镜。这些虚构的工具有两个目的,第一,修改启示,即角色对不断变化的情况做出反应的方式,第二,让读者更清楚地看到这些推测性的认知过程。最后,对三部曲的分析表明,有技巧的投机至少需要两种子技能:第一,看到尽可能多的可行可能性的能力;第二,选择并采取最合适行动的能力。在4E框架中,思维是具体化的、扩展的和行动导向的,因此,推测和想象可以被定义为对启示的特别广泛和灵活的使用。因此,猜测总是超出叙述的限制。与其他艺术形式一样,叙事只是一种工具,用于修饰和突出其所掌握的启示。
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引用次数: 2
Archival Earth: Endangered Testimony at the Limits of Narrative 档案地球:叙事极限下的濒危证词
4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2022.0019
C. P. Krieg
Abstract:In the context of overlapping anthropogenic threats to environmental knowledge and cultural memory, this article asks: what can the limits of narrative tell us about the endangered status of cultural memory and the archival relationships of contemporary literature? It argues that metaleptic moves in these narratives can be read as a historical response to material precarities in contemporary society. Read dialectically, these developments may be understood as a formal response to this precarity and a felt sense of the limits of literature to authenticate its intervention into the conditions it describes. This article draws on examples from James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird, Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s Human Matter, Sarah Broom’s The Yellow House, Karen Tei Yamashita’s Letters to Memory, and short stories from Phenderson Djèlí Clark and Ken Liu. Reading across literary fiction, memoir, and speculative fiction, this article explores how the limits of narrative are turned into opportunities for further opening the text to the world.
摘要:在人为因素对环境知识和文化记忆构成多重威胁的背景下,本文提出了一个问题:叙事的有限性能告诉我们文化记忆的濒危状况和当代文学的档案关系吗?它认为,这些叙事中的元感性动作可以被解读为对当代社会物质不稳定性的历史反应。辩证地阅读,这些发展可以被理解为对这种不稳定性的正式回应,以及对文学局限性的感觉,以验证其对其所描述的条件的干预。本文引用了詹姆斯·麦克布莱德的《好鸟》、罗德里戈·雷罗萨的《人性》、莎拉·布鲁姆的《黄房子》、凯伦·泰·山下的《致记忆的信》以及亨德森Djèlí克拉克和刘肯的短篇小说。通过阅读文学小说、回忆录和投机小说,本文探讨了叙事的局限性如何转化为进一步向世界开放文本的机会。
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Recounting and Forgetting: The Epistemological and Ethical Limits of Narrative 叙述与遗忘:叙事的认识论与伦理界限
4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2022.0018
Colin Davis
Abstract:The limits of narrative are epistemological and ethical: what can be narrated and what should be narrated? Can we recount everything, and if we could, are there even so some things that we should leave in silence? We hear a lot about the duty to remember and the right to tell one’s story, but are there some stories that cannot and should not be told? Could forgetting play a role in the ethical project of memory? Trauma narratives pose these questions in particularly fraught terms. Survivor-witnesses have a story to tell, but they are also often intensely aware that their story defies narratability and intelligibility. It must be told and cannot be told; it demands and resists understanding. This article explores these questions with reference to a number of case studies: Borges’s short story “Funes the Memorious” (1942), J.M. Coetzee’s novel Elizabeth Costello (2003), and a sequence from Claude Lanzmann’s film, Shoah (1985). In each case, the right or need to narrate is mitigated by an intense realisation that not everything can or should be told.
摘要:叙事的界限是认识论的和伦理的:什么可以叙事,什么应该叙事?我们能把每件事都说一遍吗?如果可以的话,有没有一些事情我们应该保持沉默呢?我们经常听到人们有义务记住自己的故事,有权利讲述自己的故事,但是有没有一些故事是不能也不应该被讲述的呢?遗忘能在记忆的伦理工程中发挥作用吗?创伤叙事以特别令人担忧的方式提出了这些问题。幸存者目击者有一个故事要讲,但他们也经常强烈地意识到他们的故事难以叙述和理解。必须说,又不能说;它要求理解,又抗拒理解。本文通过一些案例研究来探讨这些问题:博尔赫斯的短篇小说《值得纪念的福内斯》(1942),J.M.库切的小说《伊丽莎白·科斯特洛》(2003),以及克劳德·兰兹曼的电影《大屠杀》(1985)中的一个片段。在每一种情况下,叙述的权利或需要都被一种强烈的认识所削弱,即并非所有事情都可以或应该被告知。
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The Ethical Vision of George Eliot by Thomas Albrecht (review) 托马斯·阿尔布雷希特《乔治·艾略特的伦理视野》(书评)
4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2022.0021
Channah Damatov
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From Error to Terror: The Romantic Inheritance in W. H. Auden's "In Time of War" 从错误到恐惧:奥登《战时》的浪漫主义传承
4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2022.0006
F. V. Dam
In 1937, Faber and Faber commissioned W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood to write a travel book about Asia as a sequel to Letters from Iceland (1937), which Auden had co-authored with Louis MacNeice. While the journey to the North had been driven by cultural and personal inclinations, the decision to visit the East was motivated by a public and political purpose. After his return from Iceland in late 1936, Auden had written to E. R. Dodds that he was “not one of those who believe that poetry need or even should be directly political.” At the same time, he recognized that “the poet must have direct knowledge of the major political events” (Mendelson 2017: 183). In his quest for such direct knowledge, Auden took part in the Spanish Civil War but failed to translate his experience into poetry.1 The second Sino-Japanese War offered a chance to atone for this failure: in China, he said, “we shall have a war of our own” (Isherwood 289). At first, this conflict proved elusive. Auden was continually delayed in his attempts to visit the front. Eventually he did come close enough to witness the destruction and danger that people on the ground were facing. The germ of his sentiments can be glimpsed in a recently discovered newspaper article for the Birmingham Gazette (Mendelson 2019), in which he discusses the plight of missionaries, with particular atten-
1937年,费伯和费伯委托w·h·奥登和克里斯托弗·伊舍伍德写一本关于亚洲的旅行书,作为奥登与路易斯·麦克尼斯合著的《冰岛来信》(1937)的续集。虽然前往北方的旅程是由文化和个人倾向驱动的,但访问东方的决定是由公共和政治目的驱动的。1936年底,奥登从冰岛回来后,曾写信给e·r·多兹(E. R. Dodds)说,他“不是那种认为诗歌需要甚至不应该直接政治化的人”。同时,他认识到“诗人必须对重大政治事件有直接的了解”(Mendelson 2017: 183)。为了寻求这种直接的知识,奥登参加了西班牙内战,但未能将他的经历转化为诗歌第二次中日战争提供了一个弥补这一失败的机会:在中国,他说,“我们将有一场我们自己的战争”(Isherwood 289)。起初,这种冲突难以捉摸。奥登访问前线的计划一再被推迟。最后,他终于近距离目睹了地面上的人们所面临的破坏和危险。在最近发现的《伯明翰公报》(Mendelson 2019)的一篇报纸文章中,可以瞥见他的情绪萌芽,他在文章中讨论了传教士的困境,特别关注
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Equal Outsiders: Woolf and Coleridge Thinking Community, Romance, and Education in the Face of War 平等的局外人:伍尔夫和柯勒律治的思想共同体、浪漫和面对战争的教育
4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2022.0003
L. Cernat
In a passage from Three Guineas (1938), which rhetorically foreshadows Churchill’s famous June 1940 “we shall fight on the beaches” speech, Virginia Woolf prompts women to preserve and expand their ancestresses’ habit of thinking critically even while lacking some comforts. Joining the newly-available public sphere, women who had thought “while they stirred the pot” (2001a: 160) are now called to become more articulate:
在1938年出版的《三基尼》(Three Guineas)中的一段话中,弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫(Virginia Woolf)鼓励女性保留并扩展她们祖先的批判性思维习惯,即使她们缺乏一些舒适。这段话为丘吉尔1940年6月著名的“我们将在海滩上战斗”的演讲做了修辞上的预示。加入新出现的公共领域,那些曾经“一边搅拌锅边思考”(2001a: 160)的女性现在被要求变得更加清晰:
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