重塑快乐:埃米尔·左拉《阿索米尔》中的工人阶级审美体验

IF 0.3 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Nineteenth-Century Contexts-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2022-03-15 DOI:10.1080/08905495.2022.2054610
Virginia Leclercq
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杜伊勒里宫是一位被俘国王和一批皇家艺术品的所在地,在遭到袭击几天后,共和国议会通过了一项法案,宣布杜伊勒丽宫及其藏品为国家财产,惊人地实现了革命的理想。然而,卢浮宫新向公众提供的美学乐趣却变得像奥斯曼的任何一条林荫大道一样严格。埃米尔·左拉(Émile Zola)的《L'Assommoir》(1877年)著名地描绘了工人阶级前往卢浮宫时,在巴黎各地举行的婚礼游行。他们对博物馆的访问与关于美学政治的批判性辩论以及19世纪培养品味和调节快乐的举措交织在一起。虽然许多评论家认为卢浮宫展出的艺术中人物所享受的“无知”或“幼稚”的快乐是一个寻求保持审美等级制度的社会的症状,但我认为卢浮宫是一个政治和社会形式不断变化的地方,它扰乱了工人阶级审美快乐的边缘化或退化。根据雅克·兰齐埃的作品,我认为这部小说正式重新分配了对卢浮宫美学空间的话语控制。与其他地方试图强加秩序的第三人称全知全能叙事不同,卢浮宫的艺术作品受到婚礼派对成员的口头描述。当这些人物描述和评论艺术作品时,小说赋予了他们话语的权威合法性,并赋予了他们“未经开垦”的快乐以价值。重要的是,这种阅读让我们能够重新审视小说中传统上被视为一个更大的民主文化项目失败的部分,并对其进行修复。要做到这一点,我们需要重新调整对19世纪小说中的形式原则的理解。随着故事的发展,19世纪的小说发展出了复杂的多情节叙事和清晰的形式体系,比如成长小说或婚姻情节,这些叙事后来被现代主义的无形式和印象派叙事所打破和割裂。然而,这种区别——就像许多关于分期的描述一样——是建立在一个脆弱的基础上的,这个基础假设19世纪的小说实际上是一种赋予视角和前瞻性叙事以连贯性的形式。但如果事实并非如此呢?雅克·兰齐埃(Jacques Rancière)借用弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫(Virginia Woolf)的话,在研究“联系模式”时提出了这个问题的一个版本,我们可以将这个短语视为形式的定义
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Re-forming pleasure: working-class aesthetic experience in Émile Zola’s L’Assommoir
Days after the attack on the Tuileries palace, home to a prisoner-king and a royal collection of art, the Republican Assembly passed an act that strikingly materialized the ideals of the Revolution by declaring the palace and its collections to be national property. And yet, the aesthetic pleasure newly available to the public at the Louvre was to become as regimented as any of Haussmann’s boulevards. Émile Zola’s L’Assommoir (1877) famously depicts the parade of a working-class wedding party across Paris as they make their way to the Louvre. Their visit to the museum intersects with critical debates about the politics of aesthetics and the move to cultivate Taste and regulate pleasure in the nineteenth century. While many critics have read the “uninformed” or “puerile” pleasure the characters take in the art on display at the Louvre as symptomatic of a society that seeks to maintain an aesthetic hierarchy, I instead read the Louvre as the site of shifting political and social forms that unsettle the marginalization or degradation of working-class aesthetic pleasure. Drawing on the work of Jacques Rancière, I argue that the novel enacts a formal redistribution of the discursive control of the aesthetic space of the Louvre. In contrast to the third-person omniscient narration that elsewhere seeks to impose order, the works of art in the Louvre are subject to ekphrastic description by the members of the wedding party. As these characters describe and comment on the works of art, the novel renders their discursive authority legitimate and invests their “uncultivated” pleasure with value. Importantly, this reading allows us to revisit a part of the novel that has traditionally been read as a failure of a larger, democratic cultural project and instead recuperate it. To do so requires a recalibration of our understanding of the formal principles at work in nineteenth-century novels. As the story goes, nineteenth-century novels developed sophisticated multi-plot narratives and a clear regime of forms, like the bildungsroman or the marriage plot, that would later be shattered and fragmented by the formless and impressionistic narratives of modernism. Yet this distinction – like many accounts of periodization – is built on a fragile foundation that assumes that the nineteenthcentury novel is in fact a form that privileges perspective and forward-driven narrative to lend it coherence. But what if this were not the case? Jacques Rancière, borrowing from Virginia Woolf, asks a version of this question in examining the “mode of linkage,” a phrase that we might take as a definition of form. In “The Thread of the
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期刊介绍: Nineteenth-Century Contexts is committed to interdisciplinary recuperations of “new” nineteenth centuries and their relation to contemporary geopolitical developments. The journal challenges traditional modes of categorizing the nineteenth century by forging innovative contextualizations across a wide spectrum of nineteenth century experience and the critical disciplines that examine it. Articles not only integrate theories and methods of various fields of inquiry — art, history, musicology, anthropology, literary criticism, religious studies, social history, economics, popular culture studies, and the history of science, among others.
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