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Mordecai Richler’s Imperfect Search for Moral Values by Shana Rosenblatt Mauer (review) 莫迪凯-里希勒对道德价值的不完美探索》,作者 Shana Rosenblatt Mauer(评论)
Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916707
Ira Robinson
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Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma ed. by Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni (review) 治愈的艺术:Arleen Ionescu 和 Maria Margaroni 编著的《创伤的文化叙事》(评论)
Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916706
Balázs Berkovits
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Dispersing the Devil’s Stench: Shifting Perceptions of Sulfuric Miasma in Early Modern English Literatures 驱散恶魔的恶臭:早期现代英国文学中对硫磺瘴气的认识转变
Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916698
Andrew Kettler
Abstract: From approximately 1500 to 1650, English references to sulfur’s stench focused on sensory indications of hell, demons, and wickedness in worldly environments. Thereafter, most English references to the pungent rock turned proportionately to technics, medicine, and progress. The increasing presence of sulfuric miasma within secularizing applications for fumigations, gunpowder, and industry led to a limiting of the role of sulfur as a signifier of hell within English environments. Due to economic incentives, supernatural discourses on brimstone atmospheres faced semantic dispersion, as sulfur took on a growing number of connotations instead of remaining a significant environmental signifier of the scent of the devil and his toadies. These shifting literary associations for sulfur exemplify the fluctuating powers of the market, religious voices, biopolitical networks, and the state to define what is matter out of place , or what can be considered too environmentally toxic for economic consumption. Revising the prominence of synchronic work in Early Modern Studies that critiques the dis-enchantment thesis, and redeploying theory from Douglas, Jameson, Greenblatt, Eagleton, and Rancière, this essay highlights connections between the History of Ideas, Environmental Studies, and literary criticism through asserting that the sheer abundance of sulfuric substances in the environment, caused by increased uses for the rock in the coal-fired furnaces of the 18th century, added to a literary dislodgment of mystical definitions of sulfur’s smell as signifying evil. As the Industrial Revolution stuffed chimneys with additional sulfur compounds, material encounters with brimstone became common. Continuously taught that sulfur meant profit and purity, reformed English noses found less sin in the smell of acrid sulfur smoke. This analysis portrays that within literatures that included associations to sulfur, the impending Anthropocene was tested, greenwashed, and approved by the masses of the disenchanting English public sphere.
摘要:大约从 1500 年到 1650 年,英国人对硫磺恶臭的描述主要集中在对地狱、恶魔和世俗环境中邪恶的感官暗示上。此后,大多数英国人在提到硫磺这种刺激性岩石时,都会相应地提到技术、医学和进步。在熏蒸、火药和工业的世俗化应用中,硫磺瘴气的存在越来越多,这导致硫磺在英国环境中作为地狱象征的作用受到了限制。由于经济利益的驱使,关于硫磺氛围的超自然论述面临着语义分散的问题,硫磺被赋予了越来越多的内涵,而不再是恶魔及其随从气味的重要环境标志。硫磺在文学上的这些变化体现了市场、宗教声音、生物政治网络和国家在界定什么是不合时宜的物质,或者什么是对经济消费而言过于有害的环境时,所具有的起伏不定的力量。本文修正了早期现代研究中批判 "失迷论 "的同步研究成果,并重新部署了道格拉斯、詹姆逊、格林布拉特、伊格尔顿和朗西埃的理论,强调了思想史、环境研究和文学批评之间的联系、本文强调了思想史、环境研究和文学批评之间的联系,认为环境中硫磺物质的大量存在,是由于 18 世纪燃煤炉中对硫磺的使用量增加所致,这使得文学作品不再将硫磺的气味神秘地定义为邪恶的象征。随着工业革命的发展,烟囱里塞满了更多的硫磺化合物,人们在物质上与硫磺的接触变得越来越普遍。英国人一直被灌输硫磺意味着利益和纯洁的思想,改革后的英国人发现,刺鼻的硫磺烟味中没有那么多罪恶。本分析报告描绘了在与硫有关的文学作品中,即将到来的 "人类世 "接受了检验、绿化,并得到了失宠的英国公共领域大众的认可。
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Creative Work Ethic and Autofiction: Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be? 创作道德与自传体小说:希拉-赫蒂的《一个人应该怎样?
Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916705
David Hadar
Abstract: The rise of autofiction in the 2010s can be partially explained by the genre’s reflection of the contemporary work ethic, specifically its demand to use personal life as part of people’s work. Readers can recognize their tendency to use life for work in the way autofiction writers utilize their experience to write. This paper argues that Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be? (2010), one of the primary examples of contemporary autofiction, deals with the idea of using life for work in the context of the increased expectation of employers that their workers do so. At first, social engagement and writing are presented as competing for the protagonist’s attention. Then through the development of her friendship with the painter Margaux and tape-recording their conversation, life turns into a resource for writing. Sheila hopes that the new relationship with a friend, mediated and preserved through recordings, will save her writing project. It is not just that life is an inspiration for writing, but that it actively contributes to work by providing a text that will be part of the novel we are reading. Then as the novel progresses, problems with this new arrangement come up, and we are asked to question the viability of subordinating personal relationships to work. By its end, a temporary truce between work and life is presented, one that may be satisfying to readers but does not subvert the contemporary work ethic.
摘要:2010年代自小说的兴起,可以部分地解释为这一文体反映了当代的工作伦理,特别是它要求将个人生活作为人们工作的一部分。读者可以从自小说作家利用自己的经验进行写作的方式中认识到他们利用生活进行工作的倾向。本文认为,希拉-赫蒂(Sheila Heti)的《一个人应该怎样》(2010 年)是当代自传小说的主要范例之一,该书在雇主对员工的期望越来越高的背景下,探讨了将生活用于工作的理念。起初,社会参与和写作在争夺主人公的注意力。后来,通过与画家玛尔戈建立友谊并录制他们的对话,生活变成了写作的资源。希拉希望与朋友的新关系,通过录音的中介和保存,能够挽救她的写作计划。这不仅仅是说生活是写作的灵感源泉,而是说生活积极地为写作做出了贡献,为我们正在阅读的小说提供了文本。随着小说的发展,这一新安排出现了问题,我们不得不质疑将个人关系从属于工作的可行性。在小说的结尾,工作与生活之间达成了暂时的休战,这种休战可能会让读者感到满意,但并没有颠覆当代的工作伦理。
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The (Not-So-)Private Mind: Why Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury Is and Is Not a Failure 非)私人心灵》:福克纳的《声与怒》为何是失败之作?
Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916700
Daniel Schwartz
Abstract:Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury attempts to represent first-person experience in a radical fashion. In what I call (paradoxically) “free indirect discourse in the first person,” Faulkner ostensibly presents both thought thought and thought below the level of awareness together in one stream of text. The Quentin section in particular relies on an idealistic picture of language as meaningful in itself, apart from any intersubjective context or significant use, as though we could bypass communication and look inside Quentin’s head, finding not the brain but the “exact language” of his conscious life. I consider this temptation by way of Wittgenstein’s critique of the privacy of the mental. Wittgenstein’s aim, I argue, is not to deny or demote interiority, but rather to impugn a certain picture of how “the inner” must look — a realm composed of private objects to which the “I” alone has access. I thus suggest that we think of Quentin as an experiment, an appeal. Faulkner tries to reveal a mind in the brutal fullness of its suffering without forcing that mind to address us: to tell us that they suffer. I contend that this appeal fails, and in failing reveals the manner in which the (not-so-private) mind is essentially embedded in a shared, intersubjective world.
摘要:福克纳的《声与怒》试图以一种激进的方式表现第一人称的体验。在我称之为(自相矛盾的)"第一人称的自由间接话语 "中,福克纳表面上将思想和意识层面以下的思想合二为一地呈现在一个文本流中。特别是昆汀部分,它依赖于一种理想主义的语言图景,即语言本身是有意义的,脱离了任何主体间的语境或重要用途,就好像我们可以绕过交流,进入昆汀的大脑,找到的不是大脑,而是他有意识生活的 "精确语言"。我通过维特根斯坦对精神隐私的批判来考虑这种诱惑。我认为,维特根斯坦的目的并不是要否认或贬低内在性,而是要指责 "内在 "必须是什么样子的某种图景--一个由私人对象组成、只有 "我 "才能进入的领域。因此,我建议我们将《昆廷》视为一种实验,一种呼吁。福克纳试图揭示一个心灵在残酷的苦难中的全貌,但又不强迫这个心灵向我们诉说:告诉我们他们在受苦。我认为,这种呼吁失败了,而在失败中揭示了(并不那么私密的)心灵本质上是如何嵌入一个共同的、主体间的世界的。
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The Mirror and the Icon: A Theological Perspective on Nabokov’s Pale Fire 镜子与圣像:纳博科夫《苍白之火》的神学视角
Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916702
Erik Eklund
Abstract: The search for the author(s) of Nabokov’s Pale Fire arises from a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem of repetition and its relation to the question of origins, temporal and timeless. For insofar as an origin is a thing ( res ) that is not always already in the movement of repetition (identical or otherwise), however distantly removed from its source (finite or otherwise), there can be no finite or immanent origin in the book or in the world. There is only its sign, which incorporates and refracts within its generative gaze all the temporalities and identities as non-identical repetition. In Pale Fire such as sign is represented by St. Sudarg of Bokay’s triptych of bottomless light.
摘要:对纳博科夫《苍白之火》作者的追寻源于对重复问题及其与起源问题(时间的和永恒的)关系的根本误解。因为只要起源是一个并非始终处于重复运动(相同或其他)中的事物(res),无论它与其来源(有限或其他)相距多么遥远,那么在书中或世界上就不可能存在有限或内在的起源。只有它的符号,它将所有的时间性和身份性作为非相同的重复,并在其生成的目光中加以折射。在《苍白之火》中,博凯的圣苏达格的无底之光三联画就代表了这种符号。
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Creativity — Narrativity — Fictionality: A Critical Genealogy 创造性-叙事性-虚构性:批判性谱系
Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916697
Paul Dawson
Abstract: The term “narrative” has become ubiquitous in public discourse, but to date little work has been done to explore how vitally it is related both historically and theoretically to another contemporary buzzword: creativity. By addressing this lacuna this essay seeks not only to illuminate the popularity of narrative as a mode of knowledge, but to shed new light on its relationship to another core concept in the field: fictionality. The essay argues that the narrative turn and the contemporary boom in instrumental storytelling have been facilitated by a lexical and semantic shift from narrative as artifact to narrative as process, and that this shift is the result of ongoing historical intersections with new secularized and democratized theories of creativity as a human faculty. By tracing this shift we can better understand the contested history of fictionality, particularly in relation to debates about the rise of the novel in the eighteenth century, and bring a new approach to the epistemological underpinings of the narrative turn in the academy and the subsequent popular appeal to personal storytelling in the networked public sphere.
摘要:"叙事 "一词在公共话语中已无处不在,但迄今为止,却鲜有人去探讨它与另一个当代流行词--创造力--之间在历史上和理论上的重要关系。通过解决这一空白,这篇文章不仅要阐明叙事作为一种知识模式的流行,而且要对其与该领域的另一个核心概念--虚构性--的关系进行新的阐释。文章认为,叙事转向和当代工具性叙事的蓬勃发展得益于词汇和语义从作为人工制品的叙事到作为过程的叙事的转变,而这一转变是与作为人类能力的创造力的世俗化和民主化的新理论不断发生历史性交集的结果。通过追溯这一转变,我们可以更好地理解虚构性有争议的历史,尤其是与十八世纪小说兴起的争论相关的历史,并为学术界叙事转向的认识论基础以及随后在网络公共领域对个人讲故事的流行呼吁提供一种新的方法。
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Excluding the Rural Girl Student: Rural-Urban Divide, Knowledge Transmission, and Female Homosociality in Xiao Hong’s “Hands” 排斥农村女学生:萧红《手》中的城乡差别、知识传承与女性同社会性
Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916701
Lang Wang
Abstract:In the early 20th century, the figures of both the peasant woman and the “New Woman” caught the attention of Chinese writers. While the “New Woman” has been the subject of considerable scholarship, the representation of peasant women has not received much scholarly attention. This essay examines the peasant woman as represented in modern Chinese literature to complement the existing understanding of Chinese modernity. It focuses on the rural girl student, as she signifies the clash of two worlds: the rural family as her point of provenance and the modern school as her entry into the urban. Relying on Xiao Hong’s short story “Hands” in the context of historical accounts, I argue that hygiene becomes a type of biopower that punishes the rural girl student for her class origin and racializes her as a barbarian, the process capturing a rural-urban divide. The modern school that expels the protagonist, Wang Yaming, is not an institution that promotes upward mobility but a tool to perpetuate class privileges. Although the narrator shows occasional sympathy with Wang Yaming, under the influence of class difference female solidarity is not achieved.
摘要:20 世纪初,农妇和 "新女性 "的形象引起了中国作家的注意。虽然 "新女性 "已成为大量学术研究的主题,但农妇的形象却未受到学术界的关注。本文研究了中国现代文学中的农妇形象,以补充现有的对中国现代性的理解。文章聚焦于农村女学生,因为她代表了两个世界的冲突:农村家庭是她的出身,而现代学校则是她进入城市的入口。根据萧红的短篇小说《手》的历史叙述,我认为卫生成为一种生物权力,它惩罚了农村女学生的阶级出身,并将她种族化为野蛮人,这一过程捕捉到了城乡差别。驱逐主人公王亚明的现代学校不是一个促进向上流动的机构,而是一个延续阶级特权的工具。虽然叙述者偶尔会对王亚明表示同情,但在阶级差异的影响下,女性的团结并没有实现。
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On Listening and Failure: Roger Laporte with Marcel Proust 关于倾听与失败罗杰-拉波特与马塞尔-普鲁斯特
Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916703
Joseph Acquisto
Abstract:This essay reads Roger Laporte’s Une voix de fin silence (A voice of fine silence), the second volume of his idiosyncratic work Une vie (A life), in dialogue with the early volumes of Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). A constellation emerges from the analysis that allows us to consider the interrelations and interdependence of Laporte’s text, his work as a critic on Proust, and the Recherche itself. The essay argues that Laporte’s textual engagement with Proust allows us to re-evaluate notions of literary failure so as to redefine what counts as the success of a literary project conceived as a writing about writing and becoming a writer. Both Proust and Laporte practice a literary writing that evokes mental experience while never being synonymous with it because, as their texts demonstrate, mental and literary experience can never coincide perfectly. Laporte labels the writer’s search a “listening,” a precarious activity which, like failure, is impossible to summon on command and which can only be recognized as such in retrospect as a motor of literary creation.
摘要:本文通过罗杰-拉波特(Roger Laporte)的特立独行作品《一个人的一生》(Une vie)的第二卷,与马塞尔-普鲁斯特(Marcel Proust)的《寻找失去的时间》(A la recherche du temps perdu)的早期各卷的对话,解读了他的《一个人的沉默》(Une voix de fin silence)。通过分析,我们可以发现拉波特的文本、他作为普鲁斯特评论家的作品以及《追寻逝去的时光》本身之间的相互关系和相互依存性。文章认为,拉波特与普鲁斯特的文本交叉让我们能够重新评估文学失败的概念,从而重新定义什么才算得上是一个文学项目的成功,这个文学项目被认为是关于写作和成为作家的写作。普鲁斯特和拉波特都在践行一种唤起精神体验的文学写作,但又绝不是精神体验的同义词,因为正如他们的文本所证明的那样,精神体验和文学体验永远不可能完全吻合。拉波特将作家的探索称为 "倾听",这是一种岌岌可危的活动,就像失败一样,不可能随心所欲地召唤,只有回过头来才能认识到它是文学创作的动力。
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Toni Morrison and the Natural World: An Ecology of Color by Anissa Janine Wardi (review) 托尼-莫里森与自然世界:色彩生态学》,作者 Anissa Janine Wardi(评论)
Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916708
Yongchao Wen
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