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摘要
摘要:这篇文章探讨了威尔斯(H. G. Wells)在世纪之交的科幻小说中将 "世界 "与 "星球 "混为一谈的问题。在 "世界=星球 "尚未成为定论的时代,威尔斯积极地参与了世界-星球词汇在20世纪上半叶各种体裁中的形成。在他的早期小说中,物质有限的星球不断阻挠作家将该星球等同于他希望发展为终极政治单位的世界的尝试。通过这种尝试,世界与星球之间出现了分歧,这使我们能够在一个相称的尺度上思考个人、世界和星球,其方式与当今环境论述对我们的要求惊人地相似,或许也令人不安。
Swallowing the Whole: World, Planet, and Totality in the Planetary Fiction of H. G. Wells
Abstract:
This essay examines the conflation between world and planet in H. G. Wells's turn-of-the-century science fiction. Writing when "world=planet" was not a given, Wells actively participated in the formation of the world-planet vocabulary across a range of genres and throughout the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, I look into the planetary experiments of his early fiction, where the materially limited planet continually thwarts the writer's attempts to equate that planet to the world he wished to develop as the ultimate political unit. Emerging through such attempts is a divergence between world and planet that enables us to think about the individual, the world, and the planet all on a commensurate scale, in a manner that is strikingly—and perhaps also troublingly—similar to what recent environmental discourse asks of us today.
期刊介绍:
From its inception, Studies in the Novel has been dedicated to building a scholarly community around the world-making potentialities of the novel. Studies in the Novel started as an idea among several members of the English Department of the University of North Texas during the summer of 1965. They determined that there was a need for a journal “devoted to publishing critical and scholarly articles on the novel with no restrictions on either chronology or nationality of the novelists studied.” The founding editor, University of North Texas professor of contemporary literature James W. Lee, envisioned a journal of international scope and influence. Since then, Studies in the Novel has staked its reputation upon publishing incisive scholarship on the canon-forming and cutting-edge novelists that have shaped the genre’s rich history. The journal continues to break new ground by promoting new theoretical approaches, a broader international scope, and an engagement with the contemporary novel as a form of social critique.