{"title":"Mixed Blessings: Narratives of Inheritance in Farming and Writing","authors":"","doi":"10.56449/14290996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56449/14290996","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43618,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanities Review","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80257320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HEN THOMAS PIKETTY PUBLISHED CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (2013) more than one review of the book pointed out that the very near future of extreme inequality he invoked was ‘Jane Austen all over again’. This was more than metaphor: Piketty repeatedly returns to the fictional world of Austen, explaining that novelists like her ‘grasped the hidden contours of wealth and its inevitable implications for the lives of men and women’; that they described the effects of inequality ‘with a verisimilitude and evocative power that no statistical or theoretical analysis can match’ (Piketty 2). It certainly was surprising that this dense magisterial tome of dry economic analysis would be published to such acclaim and become a best-seller; it was even more of a surprise that it would contain an abundance of references to popular culture and literature and in particular the 19th century novels of Henry James, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac and Leo Tolstoy.
托马斯·皮凯蒂在2013年出版了《21世纪资本论》(CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY)之后，不止一篇书评指出，在不久的将来，他所提到的极端不平等是“简·奥斯汀的翻版”。这不仅仅是隐喻:皮凯蒂反复回到奥斯汀的虚构世界，解释说像她这样的小说家“抓住了财富的隐藏轮廓，以及它对男人和女人生活的不可避免的影响”;他们描述了不平等的影响，“其真实性和唤起力是任何统计或理论分析都无法比拟的”(Piketty 2)。这本密集的、权威的、干涩的经济分析大部头会受到如此好评，并成为畅销书，这当然令人惊讶;更令人惊讶的是，它包含了大量流行文化和文学的参考资料，特别是19世纪亨利·詹姆斯、简·奥斯汀、巴尔扎克和列夫·托尔斯泰的小说。
{"title":"The Injustice of Inherited Wealth","authors":"Fiona Allon","doi":"10.56449/14277109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56449/14277109","url":null,"abstract":"HEN THOMAS PIKETTY PUBLISHED CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (2013) more than one review of the book pointed out that the very near future of extreme inequality he invoked was ‘Jane Austen all over again’. This was more than metaphor: Piketty repeatedly returns to the fictional world of Austen, explaining that novelists like her ‘grasped the hidden contours of wealth and its inevitable implications for the lives of men and women’; that they described the effects of inequality ‘with a verisimilitude and evocative power that no statistical or theoretical analysis can match’ (Piketty 2). It certainly was surprising that this dense magisterial tome of dry economic analysis would be published to such acclaim and become a best-seller; it was even more of a surprise that it would contain an abundance of references to popular culture and literature and in particular the 19th century novels of Henry James, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac and Leo Tolstoy.","PeriodicalId":43618,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanities Review","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89672804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NE OF THE TROPES THAT RUNS THROUGH MANY VICTORIAN NOVELS—THOSE OF Dickens, of Wilkie Collins, of Sheridan Le Fanu, and many others—is the plot device of a will that controls the lives of the heirs, frequently through a codicil that has been kept secret or suppressed and that endangers the life of the one who inherits. In Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas a codicil to her father’s will requires Mary to live with her wicked uncle as a condition of her inheritance; if she dies before she comes of age the uncle will inherit the estate, and that condition then motivates a series of attempts against Mary’s life. In Bleak House the conflicting wills in Jarndyce and Jarndyce drive several generations of claimants to poverty and despair before a newly revealed will closes the case, with almost all of the inheritance swallowed up in legal fees. And in Charles Palliser’s magnificent pastiche of the Victorian novel, The Quincunx, the codicil to a will brings about the prolonged suffering of the hero, the forced prostitution and death of his mother, and the eventual collapse of the estate.
{"title":"On Intergenerational Justice","authors":"J. Frow","doi":"10.56449/14288664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56449/14288664","url":null,"abstract":"NE OF THE TROPES THAT RUNS THROUGH MANY VICTORIAN NOVELS—THOSE OF Dickens, of Wilkie Collins, of Sheridan Le Fanu, and many others—is the plot device of a will that controls the lives of the heirs, frequently through a codicil that has been kept secret or suppressed and that endangers the life of the one who inherits. In Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas a codicil to her father’s will requires Mary to live with her wicked uncle as a condition of her inheritance; if she dies before she comes of age the uncle will inherit the estate, and that condition then motivates a series of attempts against Mary’s life. In Bleak House the conflicting wills in Jarndyce and Jarndyce drive several generations of claimants to poverty and despair before a newly revealed will closes the case, with almost all of the inheritance swallowed up in legal fees. And in Charles Palliser’s magnificent pastiche of the Victorian novel, The Quincunx, the codicil to a will brings about the prolonged suffering of the hero, the forced prostitution and death of his mother, and the eventual collapse of the estate.","PeriodicalId":43618,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanities Review","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76067611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Fetherston, E. Potter, Kelly Miller, Devin C. Bowles
N THEIR WORK ON HOW NARRATIVE MAY HELP AUDIENCES THINK DIFFERENTLY ABOUT other species, Wojciech Malecki et al. refer to the ‘narrative turn’ within academia and its proliferation of research that addresses how ‘moral intuitions often yield to narrative persuasion’ (2). In other words, many scholars are currently asking whether narratives can persuade readers to reflect on and perhaps reconsider their own moral beliefs. The research presented in this paper follows a similar trajectory in its discussion of the results and possible implications of a reader response study that investigated how Australian readers respond to works of Australian eco-crime fiction that portray non-humans and global ecological issues such as climate change in a local Australian context. Resonant with ‘narrative persuasion’— the idea amongst social scientists that ‘a narrative is a catalyst for perspective change’ (Hamby et al. 114)— we consider the capacity of such texts to possibly engage readers with the plight of non-humans in Australia under the impacts of climate change. This study employed reader response methodology to determine some of the key themes that Australian readers are drawn to when reading Australian eco-crime fiction, with particular emphasis placed on understanding their responses to representations of the non-human and associated environmental issues in these texts. While this study originally focused on literary as well as genre ecofiction, this paper focuses in a more targeted way on the reader responses to Australian
Wojciech Malecki等人在他们关于叙事如何帮助观众以不同的方式思考其他物种的工作中提到了学术界的“叙事转向”及其研究的扩展，这些研究解决了“道德直觉往往屈服于叙事说服”的问题(2)。换句话说，许多学者目前正在询问叙事是否可以说服读者反思甚至重新考虑自己的道德信仰。本文中提出的研究遵循了类似的轨迹，讨论了一项读者反应研究的结果和可能的含义，该研究调查了澳大利亚读者对澳大利亚生态犯罪小说作品的反应，这些小说描绘了澳大利亚当地背景下的非人类和全球生态问题，如气候变化。与“叙事说服”——社会科学家认为“叙事是视角变化的催化剂”(Hamby et al. 114)的观点相呼应，我们认为这些文本有可能吸引读者关注气候变化影响下澳大利亚非人类的困境。本研究采用读者反应方法来确定澳大利亚读者在阅读澳大利亚生态犯罪小说时被吸引的一些关键主题，特别强调理解他们对这些文本中非人类和相关环境问题的表现的反应。虽然本研究最初关注文学和类型生态小说，但本文更有针对性地关注读者对澳大利亚的反应
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{"title":"Intergenerationality, for John Frow","authors":"T. H. Ford","doi":"10.56449/14231671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56449/14231671","url":null,"abstract":"RAISES","PeriodicalId":43618,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanities Review","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80712424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
USTICE IS A LOFTY AND WEIGHTY CONCEPT. LOOKING BACKWARDS, IT PROMISES THE restoration of a moral order heretofore disrespected and violated; looking forward, the establishment of the institutional conditions in which lives might flourish without fear of arbitrary deprivation and harm. This, at least, is the ideal. In practice, under conditions where the logics of colonialism, capitalism, extractivism and human exceptionalism remain hegemonic, the justice mainstream institutions deliver all too often serves to lend legitimacy of the greatest injustices of our age (Davis et al.). Too often, the lens of contemporary institutional justice renders invisible those who are harmed, not by discrete acts that show up as aberrant against the background of fossil-fuelled and extractive forms of life, but by those normalised forms of life themselves. Future generations of humans, but also current and future generations of beings other than humans are chief amongst them.
{"title":"Intergenerational Multispecies Justice: No Longer a Leap Elsewhere","authors":"D. Celermajer, Weighty Concept, L. ., Ooking","doi":"10.56449/14288775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56449/14288775","url":null,"abstract":"USTICE IS A LOFTY AND WEIGHTY CONCEPT. LOOKING BACKWARDS, IT PROMISES THE restoration of a moral order heretofore disrespected and violated; looking forward, the establishment of the institutional conditions in which lives might flourish without fear of arbitrary deprivation and harm. This, at least, is the ideal. In practice, under conditions where the logics of colonialism, capitalism, extractivism and human exceptionalism remain hegemonic, the justice mainstream institutions deliver all too often serves to lend legitimacy of the greatest injustices of our age (Davis et al.). Too often, the lens of contemporary institutional justice renders invisible those who are harmed, not by discrete acts that show up as aberrant against the background of fossil-fuelled and extractive forms of life, but by those normalised forms of life themselves. Future generations of humans, but also current and future generations of beings other than humans are chief amongst them.","PeriodicalId":43618,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanities Review","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87804456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VER THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS, GLOBAL ECONOMIC, INSTITUTIONAL, POLITICAL, AND social disinvestment in the humanities has contributed to what John Guillory has recently called a ‘crisis of legitimation’ (xiii). By overemphasising the political importance of contemporary literary culture, cultural discourse has largely focused on cementing literature’s political agency. Because humanities disciplines, in Guillory’s view, occupy positions of structural weakness, there is no winnable argument about the social relevance of criticism. ‘So long as there are scientists at work on a cure for cancer’, he notes, ‘the humanities will have a nearly insurmountable task in making a case in the public sphere for their great, if less obvious, social benefits’ (109). Feeling themselves, their works, and their institutions to be on shaky ground, critics have fallen into the habit of ‘romanticising’ the power and importance of literary criticism’s ability to advance progressive political positions or debate liberal or democratic functions.1
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{"title":"Dead Horse Gap: Intergenerational Justice and the Culling of Horses in the Australian Alps","authors":"Julieanne Lamond","doi":"10.56449/14222876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56449/14222876","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43618,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanities Review","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88031998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
the spiritual and cultural dimensions of this dispossession cannot be overstated) but one
这种剥夺的精神和文化层面不能被夸大，但有一个
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