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The Shadow-Line 2 影线2
Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.4324/9781315024622-4
Allen Ingram
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For Fear of “Drifting Unconsciously”: Marlow Goes to a Wedding 害怕“无意识地漂流”:马洛去参加婚礼
Pub Date : 2020-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198864370.003.0005
Yael Levin
The chapter tests the relation between the novel’s titular theme, its handling of plot, and its commercial appeal. The emphasis on chance serves Conrad’s attempt to performatively resist the pervasiveness of determinism in nineteenth-century thought. At the same time, a set of motifs that serve as counter-indications to contingency offer coherence and the familiar. The ambivalent treatment of chance is read as an indication of Conrad’s oscillation between two different artistic commitments and the philosophical paradigms that generate them. What is at stake is not only the nature of the audience he chooses to address and the authorial responsibilities that such a choice dictates, but the very question of his artistic legacy. The method with which chance is to be treated in the novel will determine if Conrad is a “modern” writer or a panderer to public opinion; whether he chooses an art of Becoming or of Being.
这一章检验了小说的名义主题、情节处理和商业吸引力之间的关系。对机会的强调有助于康拉德试图在表演上抵制十九世纪思想中无处不在的决定论。与此同时,作为偶然性的反指示的一组母题提供了连贯性和熟悉性。对机会的矛盾处理被解读为康拉德在两种不同的艺术承诺和产生它们的哲学范式之间摇摆不定的迹象。利害攸关的不仅是他所选择的受众的性质,以及这种选择所规定的作者责任,还有他的艺术遗产的问题。在小说中对待机遇的方法将决定康拉德是一个“现代”作家还是迎合公众舆论的人;他选择的是成为的艺术还是存在的艺术。
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Losing the Plot, Finding Time 失去情节,找到时间
Pub Date : 2020-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198864370.003.0002
Yael Levin
An Outcast of the Islands and The Rescue share a fictional and historical story world. A fundamental difference emerges against the backdrop of this resemblance. Grounded in a conceptualization of time that originates in antiquity, the first novel is obsessed with measurement and accounting. The Rescue is more neatly squared with modern philosophy and its attempt to conceive a time that preexists numerical evaluation. The two ontologies of time find their narrative expression in two distinct plot designs. The first hinges on action, the second, inaction. Deviating from the conventions of emplotting we find in earlier works, the late novel presents a time of suspension and waiting, a time out of joint. For philosophy and narratology both, such a transition marks an attempt to think outside determinism and court the indeterminate—to think the new.
《荒岛弃儿》和《救援》分享了一个虚构的历史故事世界。在这种相似的背景下,出现了根本性的差异。第一部小说以源自古代的时间概念为基础,沉迷于计量和会计。《拯救》更符合现代哲学,它试图设想一个数字评估存在之前的时代。时间的两种本体论在两种不同的情节设计中找到了它们的叙事表达。前者取决于行动,后者取决于不作为。与我们在早期作品中发现的雇佣惯例不同,这部后期小说呈现了一段暂停和等待的时间,一段脱节的时间。对于哲学和叙事学来说,这种转变都标志着一种尝试,即在决定论之外思考,追求不确定性——思考新事物。
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“To Make You See”? Marlow and the Anti-Ocular Turn “让你看见”?马洛和反眼转
Pub Date : 2020-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198864370.003.0004
Yael Levin
The chapter utilizes sight as a gauge with which to trace the transition from a philosophy of Being to a philosophy of Becoming. The cultural expressions of the anti-ocular turn observed in the nineteenth century provide the framework for a testing of Conrad’s use of the witness-narrator in Lord Jim, a novel that dramatizes the oscillations between an aesthetics of Being and one of Becoming. Bergson’s Creative Evolution and Time and Free Will inform the philosophical backdrop to the discussion, the anti-ocular turn of modernism its cultural complement, and narratology’s concept of the witness-narrator, the fictional measure against which these discourses strain. The three coalesce in an attempt to think the relation between sight, experience, and comprehension, between the demise of visual perception and its figurative, scientific, and philosophical expressions in the failure of categorical thinking and instrumental logic.
这一章利用视觉作为一种尺度来追踪从存在哲学到变易哲学的转变。19世纪观察到的反视觉转向的文化表达为康拉德在《吉姆勋爵》中使用的证人叙述者的测试提供了框架,这部小说戏剧化了存在美学和成为美学之间的摇摆。柏格森的《创造性进化》和《时间与自由意志》为讨论提供了哲学背景,现代主义的反视觉转向及其文化补充,以及叙事学的证人-叙述者概念,这是这些话语所反对的虚构措施。这三者结合在一起,试图思考视觉、经验和理解之间的关系,以及视觉感知的消亡与范畴思维和工具逻辑的失败所带来的具象、科学和哲学表达之间的关系。
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Conclusion 结论
Pub Date : 2020-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198864370.003.0007
Yael Levin
The chapter reads the tensions observed throughout this study with recent critical re-evaluations of human experience. Conrad’s art, and the modernism with which it is associated, have long been read as centering on questions of knowledge and truth, concealment and revelation, doubt and the desire to know. A more ontologically-driven thinking of modernism shows that the oscillations between Being and Becoming are meaningful not only as competing forces in critical practice and philosophical discourse, but as a gauge for significant changes in the way we engage with and represent the world. Conrad’s writing unmoors time from its chronological measure, frees the subject of the limits of the Cartesian cogito, and abandons telos in the charting of narrative form. Where conceptual logic cancels out difference in an attempt to create a coherent, recognizable picture, Conrad’s work repeatedly returns to the life force of difference.
本章通过对人类经验的重新评估,解读了整个研究中观察到的紧张关系。康拉德的艺术,以及与之相关的现代主义,长期以来一直被解读为围绕着知识与真理、隐藏与启示、怀疑与求知的欲望等问题。一种更为本体论驱动的现代主义思想表明,存在与成为之间的摇摆不仅是批判实践和哲学话语中的竞争力量,而且是我们参与和代表世界方式的重大变化的衡量标准。康拉德的写作将时间从时间的尺度中解放出来,将主体从笛卡尔式的“我思”的限制中解放出来,摒弃了叙事形式图表中的目的。在概念逻辑抵消差异,试图创造一个连贯的、可识别的画面的地方,康拉德的作品反复地回到差异的生命力。
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From Being to Becoming: Writing the Now 从存在到成为:书写当下
Pub Date : 2020-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198864370.003.0006
Yael Levin
Nostromo is anchored in historical forces that undermine the notion of human agency: whether it is the power of capitalism and revolution or the inevitability of family inheritance and psychodynamic repetition, the individual conducts a life that is always already scripted. The novel is action heavy; the twists and turns of the plot performatively mirror the historical or libidinal forces that draw the heroes into a predetermined future. Moments of deceleration and hesitation that punctuate the narrative nevertheless interrupt the rush of history with the suggestion of accident, the unforeseen, and the new. The chapter turns to stylistic and thematic articulations of suspension in order to think the possibility of recurrence with difference, of an escape from an inevitability that is not only historically but also generically determined.
《诺斯特罗莫》根植于削弱人类能动性概念的历史力量之中:无论是资本主义和革命的力量,还是家族传承的必然性和精神动力的重复,个人的生活总是预先设定好的。这部小说情节丰富;情节的曲折反映了历史或性欲的力量,这些力量将英雄们带入预定的未来。叙事中不时出现的减速和犹豫时刻,却让人联想到意外、不可预见和新的事物,打断了历史的奔涌。这一章转向了悬吊的风格和主题表达,以思考不同的再现的可能性,从历史和一般决定的必然性中逃脱的可能性。
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Language and the Subject 语言与主体
Pub Date : 2020-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198864370.003.0003
Yael Levin
The chapter focuses on Conrad’s scenes of suspension as sites for an investigation of language and its role in the creation of the modernist subject. Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and Victory are read as the serial restaging of an unsolicited encounter with the language of the other. These unwarranted interruptions contribute to an exploration of a particularly passive and fragmented subjectivity that relinquishes the agency and cohesion afforded the Cartesian cogito. The insistence on the oral tradition is thus read not as an attempt to resurrect speech within an essentially silent medium but as a dramatization of the role of language in the evolution of the modernist subject and the narrative that houses him. Those same experimental narrative techniques that are often associated with Conrad’s commitment to an inherently epistemological philosophical inquiry are attributed here to the author’s effort to chart the ontological coordinates of character and narration.
这一章着重于康拉德的悬停场景,以此作为考察语言及其在现代主义主体创作中的作用的场所。《黑暗之心》、《吉姆勋爵》和《胜利》被解读为一系列与他人语言的不请自来的相遇的重演。这些毫无根据的中断有助于探索一种特别被动和碎片化的主体性,它放弃了笛卡尔式的我思所提供的代理和凝聚力。因此,对口述传统的坚持并不是试图在一个本质上沉默的媒介中复活演讲而是将语言在现代主义主体和叙事的演变中扮演的角色戏剧化。这些实验叙事技巧通常与康拉德对内在认识论哲学探究的承诺联系在一起,而在这里,这些技巧归功于作者对人物和叙事的本体论坐标的描绘。
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The Bibliography 的参考书目
Pub Date : 2020-04-30 DOI: 10.4324/9781003020837-1
Bruce E. Teets
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Rehabilitating “The Brute” 修复“野兽”
Pub Date : 2004-01-01 DOI: 10.1163/9789004490949_008
Michael Lucas
CONRAD COMPLETED "The Brute" in January 1906. It first appeared that year in the Daily Chronicle, was reprinted in 1907 in the United States in McClure's Magazine, and was then collected in A Set of Six, published in 1908. Never, to my knowledge, has a good story been more often dismissed or ignored in critical writing. Baines considers it "a slight story, little more than a pot-boiler" (1960: 388). Graver's opinion is that it is "the least substantial" piece mA Set of Six (1969: 132). Fleishman (1967) judges it to have little literary or political interest. Watts, who dismisses it thus: "then Conrad offered [to Blackwood] one of his worst tales, 'The Brute', which was properly rejected" (1989: 77), later adds: "The 'degrading' of his creativity can be seen not only in trivial fiction for the market (tales like 'The Inn of the Two Witches,' 'The Brute' or "Gaspar Ruiz)" (131). Gail Fraser dismisses the story, along with "Gaspar Ruiz," "An Anarchist," and "The Informer" as "essentially anecdotal" (1996). And Batchelor condemns the story as "a pot-boiler about a dangerous ship, written for the (substantial) audience which liked Conrad's Old Salt nar ratives" (1994: 150). None of these critics produce evidence for their evaluations, and one is tempted to dismiss these comments as casual personal opinions. The purpose of this essay is to show that Conrad's own dismis sal of the story, which seems to have been taken too seriously by the critics, should be taken with a pinch of salt. After all, some of his comments about the volume A Set of Six, as well as about some of his other works, are uninformative, dismissive, misleading, or even absurd. For instance, he wrote to Wells about A Set of Six. "I've been writing silly short stories" (CL3: 297) and to Sir Algernon Methuen: "They are not studies ? they touch no problems. They are just stories in which I've
康拉德于1906年1月完成了《野兽》。那一年,它首次出现在《每日纪事报》上,1907年在美国的《麦克卢尔杂志》上重印,然后收录在1908年出版的《六集》中。据我所知,在评论写作中,从来没有一个好故事像现在这样经常被忽视。贝恩斯认为这是“一个不重要的故事,比一个锅锅锅略强一点”(1960:388)。Graver的观点是,它是“最不实质性”的作品(Set of Six, 1969: 132)。弗莱什曼(1967)认为它没有什么文学或政治意义。瓦茨这样驳回了这个故事:“然后康拉德(向布莱克伍德)提出了他最糟糕的故事之一,《野兽》,这是合理的拒绝”(1989:77),后来补充说:“他创造力的‘堕落’不仅可以在市场上的平凡小说中看到(像《两个女巫的客栈》、《野兽》或《加斯帕·鲁伊斯》这样的故事)。”(131)。盖尔·弗雷泽(Gail Fraser)认为这个故事与《加斯帕·鲁伊斯》(Gaspar Ruiz)、《无政府主义者》(An Anarchist)和《告密者》(the Informer)一样“本质上是轶事”(1996)。巴彻勒谴责这个故事是“一个关于一艘危险船只的锅锅式故事,是为喜欢康拉德的老盐故事的(大量)观众写的”(1994:150)。这些评论家都没有为他们的评价提供证据,人们很容易将这些评论视为随意的个人意见而不予理睬。这篇文章的目的是表明康拉德自己对这个故事的不屑一顾,这似乎被评论家们过于认真地对待了,应该有所保留。毕竟,他对《六人组》以及他的其他一些作品的一些评论是缺乏信息的、不屑一顾的、误导的,甚至是荒谬的。例如,他写信给威尔斯谈论《六人组》。“我一直在写一些愚蠢的短篇小说”(CL3: 297),并对阿尔杰农·梅休恩爵士说:“它们不是研究吗?他们没有碰到任何问题。这些都是我写的故事
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Conrad and the Erotic: “A Smile of Fortune” and “The Planter of Malata” 康拉德与情色:《幸运的微笑》与《玛拉塔的种植园主》
Pub Date : 2004-01-01 DOI: 10.1163/9789004490949_011
J. Hawthorn, Thomas C. Moser's, J. Conrad
SINCE THOMAS C. MOSER'S Joseph Conrad: Achievement and Decline appeared in 1957, discussion of the sharply varying quality of Conrad's fiction and analysis of his depiction of relationships between men and women seem destined to overlap. Moser's diagnosis of what he con siders the debilitating sickness in Conrad's fiction is neither simple nor simplistic but involves a clear thesis: "love" is "the lowest common denominator of the apprentice work ... of the inferior short novels ... of the weak portions of "Heart of Darkness," Lord Jim, and Nostromo" It also "dominates the later period, where it is central to six of the seven novels" (3-4). Moser concludes that the "sympathetic treatment of love between a white man and a woman is not congenial to the early Conrad's creativity" (65). In such summarizing statements Moser blames Conrad's attempt to write about love, not about sexuality, for inadequacies in the better work and for his "decline." But his account of the relationship between love and sexuality in Conrad, between, say, the romantic and the erotic, is not always as clear as one might wish. Discussing "The Return," for example, which he characterizes as "a bad piece of writing," he writes that it provides a "locus classicus for the near paralysis of Conrad's crea tivity when dealing with a sexual subject," and that "it is significant that Conrad's one extended study of a sexual subject should center in an inadequate male who sees female sexuality as an inescapable menace" (1957: 77). In contrast, he enthusiastically describes "A Smile of Fortune" as "a first-rate story of female sexuality and male impotence" (98). That critics still engage with Moser's thesis says something about its importance, but it has had unfortunate after-effects. Susan Jones's
自从托马斯·c·莫泽的《约瑟夫·康拉德:成就与衰落》于1957年出版以来,关于康拉德小说质量差异巨大的讨论,以及对他对男女关系描写的分析,似乎注定要重叠。莫泽对康拉德小说中令人衰弱的疾病的诊断既不简单也不过分简单化,而是包含了一个明确的论点:“爱”是“学徒工作的最低公分母……劣等短篇小说……在《黑暗之心》、《吉姆勋爵》和《诺斯特罗莫》的薄弱部分中,它也“主导了后期,在七部小说中有六部是中心”(3-4)。莫泽的结论是,“对白人男女之间爱情的同情处理与康拉德早期的创作不符”(65)。在这样的总结陈述中,莫泽指责康拉德试图写爱,而不是性,这是他在更好的作品中的不足之处,也是他的“衰落”。但他对康拉德作品中爱与性之间的关系,比如浪漫与情欲之间的关系的描述,并不总是像人们希望的那样清晰。例如,在讨论《归来》时,他将其描述为“一篇糟糕的作品”,他写道,它提供了“康拉德在处理性主题时近乎瘫痪的创造力的经典场所”,并且“康拉德对性主题的一次扩展研究应该集中在一个将女性性行为视为不可避免的威胁的不称职的男性身上,这是很重要的”(1957:77)。相反,他热情地将《幸运的微笑》描述为“一个关于女性性欲和男性无能的一流故事”(98)。批评人士仍在关注莫泽的理论,这说明了它的重要性,但它也产生了不幸的后果。苏珊·琼斯的
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