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In this essay I take up Jane Bennett’s invitation to “think slowly” the idea of matter as “passive,” “inert,” and “raw” by focusing on a specific—and overlooked—material category: the “raw material.” Taking as a case study the gold mined in Victoria, Australia, in the 1850s and beyond, I argue that the “raw material” is not an inevitable “fact” of nature, simply awaiting its inevitable transformation into capital. Instead, it is a narrative construction deliberately designed to suppress or erase (often violently) the sheer range of alternative meanings the same matter might hold. Gold is an especially useful material for exploring this idea, since it is a key example of Marx’s “primitive accumulation,” a resource extracted explicitly in order to construct a new settler colony. It is also a material with a long history of fabulation and fantasy. Reading Charles Reade’s settler-colonial novel It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1856) alongside the Indigenous writer Kim Scott’s Benang: From the Heart (1999), I argue that the novel is a particularly adept form for registering the multiple, rich alternative stories we might tell (or that have long been told) about “raw materials” and their dissonant, recalcitrant meanings.
在这篇文章中，我接受了简·贝内特的邀请，通过关注一个特定但被忽视的材料类别：“原材料”，“慢慢思考”物质的“被动”、“惰性”和“原始”概念，只是在等待它不可避免地转变为资本。相反，它是一种叙事结构，旨在压制或抹去（通常是暴力的）同一事物可能具有的各种替代意义。黄金是探索这一思想的特别有用的材料，因为它是马克思“原始积累”的一个关键例子，这是一种明确提取的资源，目的是建立一个新的定居者殖民地。它也是一种具有悠久的虚构和幻想历史的材料。阅读查尔斯·里德（Charles Reade）的定居者殖民小说《修补永远不会太迟》（It Is Never Too Late to Mend，1856）和土著作家金·斯科特（Kim Scott）的《贝南：发自内心》（Benang：From the Heart，1999。
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Previous articleNext article FreeBook ReviewWomen’s Friendship in Medieval Literature. Edited by Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022. Pp. vii+299.L. M. C. WestonL. M. C. WestonCalifornia State University, Fresno Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreWomen’s Friendship in Medieval Literature is one of those rare collections in which each article not only stands on its own as a provocative piece of scholarship but also contributes to an integrated whole. The contributors, that is, have become collaborators in a shared argument, so that the volume models the social and textual work of women’s friendship that it explores. As Lochrie and Vishnuvajjala make clear in their introduction, there is quite a scholarly history of engaging with friendship.1 But these engagements have focused primarily on friendships among men and on a public, Ciceronian definition of amicitia. Consequently, the editors and contributors to this volume argue, women’s friendships—even when not deemed theoretically impossible—have been recognized mostly as exceptions that prove the rule of an inherent masculinity. What happens, then, when gender is taken into consideration? In what different textual encounters might friendship among women become visible? And if masculine friendship is ideologically aligned with masculine virtue, essential likeness, and public politics, where—in what forms and practices—might women’s friendships reside?The collection’s conversation plays out in three movements. The first, “Varieties of Spiritual Friendship,” roots the discussion in what may be the most visible examples of friendship, those in monastic communities and witnessed by texts associated especially with visionary spirituality. Jennifer N. Brown’s “Female Friendships and Visionary Women” starts by reconsidering three cloistered women whose vitae and correspondence (as well as visions) are relatively well known—the twelfth-century Hildegard of Bingen, the fourteenth-century Catherine of Siena, and the women commemorated in late medieval schwesternbücher—and how textual evidence of their lives and careers both echoes and varies from male models of spiritual friendship as theorized by Aelred of Rievaulx, stressing the women’s participation in supportive communities of teachers, students, scribes, and monastic sisters. Brown then uses her analysis to shed light on records concerning the lesser-known post-Reformation English Sister Marie. In the following chapter (“The Foundations of Friendship: Amicitia, Literary Production, and Spiritual Community in Marie de France”), Stella Wang similarly thematizes the “vibrant networks” (37) through which women supported each other, looking for their presence in Marie’s descriptions of the historical Ely of La Vie Seint Audree and the fictional abbeys of Le Fresn
上一篇文章下一篇文章免费书评中世纪文学中的妇女友谊。由Karma Lochrie和Usha Vishnuvajjala编辑。哥伦布:俄亥俄州立大学出版社，2022。Pp.七+ 299. l。M. C.韦斯顿M. C.韦斯顿加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校搜索本文作者的更多文章PDFPDF +全文添加到收藏夹下载引文追踪引文任务转载分享在facebook推特linkedin redditemail打印章节《中世纪文学中的女性友谊》是那些罕见的文集之一，每一篇文章不仅独立地站在一个具有煽动性的学术作品上，而且还有助于一个完整的整体。也就是说，作者已经成为了共同争论的合作者，所以这本书模拟了它所探索的女性友谊的社会和文本工作。正如Lochrie和Vishnuvajjala在他们的介绍中明确指出的那样，有相当多的学术历史与友谊有关但这些交往主要集中在男性之间的友谊，以及西塞罗对友谊的公共定义上。因此，这本书的编辑和撰稿人认为，女性的友谊——即使在理论上不被认为是不可能的——大多被认为是证明内在男性气质规律的例外。那么，如果考虑到性别因素，会发生什么呢?在哪些不同的文本相遇中，女性之间的友谊可能变得可见?如果男性的友谊在意识形态上与男性的美德、本质上的相似和公共政治一致，那么女性的友谊会以什么样的形式和实践存在呢?这个系列的对话分三个部分展开。第一部分，“精神友谊的多样性”，将讨论根植于可能是最明显的友谊的例子，那些在寺院社区中，特别是与有远见的灵性相关的文本所见证的例子。詹妮弗·n·布朗的《女性友谊与幻想女性》一书首先重新审视了三位与世隔绝的女性，她们的简历和通信(以及幻想)相对来说比较为人所知——12世纪宾根的希尔德加德，14世纪锡耶纳的凯瑟琳，以及中世纪晚期施韦斯特- <s:1>谢尔所纪念的女性——以及她们生活和事业的文本证据如何与里沃克斯的埃尔雷德所提出的精神友谊的男性模式相呼应，又有所不同。强调妇女在教师、学生、抄写员和修道院修女等支持性团体中的参与。然后，布朗用她的分析揭示了有关改革后不太为人所知的英国玛丽修女的记录。在下一章(“友谊的基础:玛丽·德·法兰西的友谊、文学创作和精神共同体”)中，斯特拉·王同样将“充满活力的网络”(37)作为主题，通过这些网络，女性相互支持，在玛丽对历史上的圣奥德里生活的伊里和虚构的弗雷纳和埃利杜克修道院的描述中寻找她们的存在。安德里亚·博法在《意大利神圣女性生活中的友谊与抵抗》一书中进一步讨论了这种网络，她指出，这种联系不仅支持和培育女性，而且允许她们在女性空间中破坏父权控制。最后，在《姐妹和朋友:西翁修道院的中世纪修女》一书中，亚历山德拉·维里尼细致入微地研究了社区中的友谊是如何支持中世纪晚期英国某修道院的文本创作的。第二乐章“女性空间，女性的声音”将对话从修道女性转向世俗女性。Lydia Yaitsky Kerz在她的《Maydenes Moo之间:基于性别的社区、种族思想和emar<s:1>贵族女性的工作》一书中开始追溯女性之间跨种族、跨阶级以及跨代际的联系，这些联系在匿名的中世纪英国浪漫小说中得到了体现。Usha Vishnuvajjala的“Stanzaic Morte Arthur中的女性社区和友谊的可能性”关注的是那些经常沉默(因此被忽视)的女性，她们围绕着像Stanzaic Morte的Gaynor这样的浪漫人物。梅利莎·雷德利·埃尔梅斯(Melissa Ridley Elmes)从最近关于情感和情感的学术研究中得到启发，在她的《中世纪晚期英国文学中的女性友谊:乔叟、高尔和马洛里的文化翻译》中，询问了(男性)作者如何改变他们的来源来吸引女性读者，以及这表明女性对友谊和社区的渴望和体验。在本书的第三乐章“女性友谊的新模式”中，与中世纪文本的接触变得更加投机。这些文章以先前的询问为基础，通过现代的类比来(重新)访问中世纪的资料来源。在《培养友谊:阿莱弗诗中的女性友谊、酒精和教育社区》一书中，卡丽莎? 哈里斯的目光超越了浪漫故事中的精英女性，而是那些因在酒馆八卦中建立关系而受到称赞(有时也受到谴责)的女性，他把她们的教育和咨询文化比作20世纪的女同性恋酒吧文化。Karma Lochrie同样在《女性之间的所有这些关系:乔叟和女性友谊的贝克德尔测试》中呼吁现代流行文化。在“克里斯汀·德·皮桑的《贵妇人之城》一书中的虚拟友谊政治”中，克里斯汀·奇姆讲述了这位中世纪晚期的作家如何通过对古典和基督教父权历史中人物的跨时代整理来构建另一个女性社区。Laurie A. Finke的《假体友谊和博爱剧场》借鉴了神秘社会的历史及其在20世纪后期女权主义巫术团体发展中的作用，以解决女性在男性兄弟空间中选择女性同性恋社会关系的问题。很明显，这部分的最后一篇文章是克莱尔·a·利斯和吉莉安·r·奥弗林的长期合作伙伴和朋友的作品。她们的文章《朋友间的对话:Ælfflæd、伊明堡和讲故事的艺术》(Conversation among Friends: Ælfflæd, Iurminburg, and Arts of Storytelling)特别引人注目，从当代女性诗人和小说作家那里获得灵感，想象一种友谊，尽管在现存的资料中没有明确的见证，但通过对那些让女性沉默的文本的严格审讯，可以(重新)创造出这种友谊。这本书——如果不是它引发的对话——以“远方的友谊”的后记结尾，佩内洛普·安德森将这部作品置于我们自己的当代世界，思考我们在大流行时代对在物理分离的情况下保持联系的焦虑，如何促使我们作为学者(和女性)想象跨越时间的关系。最终，这本书并不寻求，更不用说声称，对中世纪的女性友谊给出最后的结论。相反，它力求通过提供有助于发现和考察其他关系、过去和现在的其他纠缠的学术模式，来激发读者提出进一步的问题。基础研究包括Alan Bray, The Friend(芝加哥大学出版社，2003);C.斯蒂芬·耶格，《崇高的爱:寻找失去的情感》(费城:宾夕法尼亚大学出版社，1999年);Julian Haseldine主编，《中世纪欧洲的友谊》(斯特劳德:萨顿出版社，1999);阿尔布雷希特·克拉森和玛丽莲·桑迪奇主编。《中世纪与近代早期的友谊:一种基本伦理话语的探索》(柏林:de Gruyter出版社，2010)。上一篇文章下一篇文章详细信息图表参考文献被现代语言学引用2023年5月第120卷第4期文章doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/724337浏览量:122本网站总浏览量历史在线发布2023年2月8日如需重新使用，请联系[email protected]. pdf下载Crossref报告没有引用本文的文章。
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Highlighting the importance of the architecture of conversion for Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, this article situates the play within the context of Reformation adaptations, including the founding of playhouses and stranger churches within ex-monastic buildings. Foregrounding fascination with the mercurial and protean energies of architectural conversion, rather than charting more familiar processes of ruination, nostalgia, and loss, the article emphasizes the religious polyvalency of Barabas’s converted house and connects its thresholds to the performance of conversion in different contexts. The Jew of Malta, I argue, makes imaginative use of the complex dilemmas posed by converted structures, making visible the uncomfortable and inconvenient instabilities that they manifest.
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This essay presents new information from a manuscript newsletter of John Castle about the final year of Sir George Buc (1560–1622), historian of Richard III and Master of the Revels: his oft-noted “madness” was manifest as manuscript-based investigation of rabbinic sources that led to his denial of Jesus as Messiah. Such was the gravest form of apostasy in early Stuart England, and if legally pursued would likely have led to Buc’s execution. The official verdict of “lunacy” thus spared Buc’s life and conveniently spared the court the embarrassment of such a figure at its heart. Such a judgment was consistent with broader tendencies to treat various strains of heterodoxy as “madness.” The essay also considers this reported conversion in the context of more general interest in Hebraic sources in the 1610s and 1620s (and the attendant fears of “Judaizing”). The account of Buc’s situation is credible, in light of the general reliability of its source (Castle was a deputy clerk of the Privy Seal) and Buc’s well-known tendency to contrarian scholarly positions, as most famously evident in his history of King Richard III.
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This article offers a renewed consideration of the figure of apostrophe in seventeenth-century literature by focusing on a genre in which it is especially prominent: lyric poetry on the Creation. Drawing on Jonathan Culler’s account of apostrophe’s “effects of presence,” it shows that Renaissance poets apostrophize the created world not merely to praise it as something outside and before them, but also to channel the power that created that world into the rhetorical present of the poem. In readings of Italian, French, and English poems, the article argues that poetry’s own linguistic vitality, conferred by the “event” of apostrophe, becomes in these texts a proxy for the event of Creation itself, in which God’s word breathes life into matter—Creation understood, however, not as harmony or fixed order but as a power of free play. At the same time, the article is attentive to the ways in which the powers of apostrophe shift in different cultural contexts. In English poetry in particular, the overt exuberance of apostrophe’s “effects of presence” as seen in continental poetry turns inward, reflecting the creative power of a mind cut off from external Creation rather than recapitulating it. But the article shows that despite these differences, apostrophe’s function as a fundamental medium of rhetorical power—and as a means of negotiating the divide between human and divine forms of Creation—is a constant across lyric written in several languages at a time when national literary traditions are often thought to be diverging.
{"title":"Apostrophe as Play in Seventeenth-Century Lyric","authors":"G. Pertile","doi":"10.1086/724563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724563","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a renewed consideration of the figure of apostrophe in seventeenth-century literature by focusing on a genre in which it is especially prominent: lyric poetry on the Creation. Drawing on Jonathan Culler’s account of apostrophe’s “effects of presence,” it shows that Renaissance poets apostrophize the created world not merely to praise it as something outside and before them, but also to channel the power that created that world into the rhetorical present of the poem. In readings of Italian, French, and English poems, the article argues that poetry’s own linguistic vitality, conferred by the “event” of apostrophe, becomes in these texts a proxy for the event of Creation itself, in which God’s word breathes life into matter—Creation understood, however, not as harmony or fixed order but as a power of free play. At the same time, the article is attentive to the ways in which the powers of apostrophe shift in different cultural contexts. In English poetry in particular, the overt exuberance of apostrophe’s “effects of presence” as seen in continental poetry turns inward, reflecting the creative power of a mind cut off from external Creation rather than recapitulating it. But the article shows that despite these differences, apostrophe’s function as a fundamental medium of rhetorical power—and as a means of negotiating the divide between human and divine forms of Creation—is a constant across lyric written in several languages at a time when national literary traditions are often thought to be diverging.","PeriodicalId":45201,"journal":{"name":"MODERN PHILOLOGY","volume":"120 1","pages":"444 - 473"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42435569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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