《劳动、思想和作者工作:弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫和汉娜·阿伦特》

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2021-02-26 DOI:10.1353/dia.2020.0003
V. Baena
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摘要:本文从汉娜·阿伦特在《人类状况》(1958)和《心灵生活》(1978)中对劳动、工作和思想的思考入手,探讨弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫第一部小说《远航》(1915)中对工作的表述与文学创作之间的关系。我认为,这两位女性知识分子对探索想象力的特殊“工作”的本质表现出了共同的关注,这种“工作”与其他种类的劳动类似,但重要的是不同于其他种类的劳动。至于《远航》,我展示了这部小说是如何在虚构的帝国背景中固有的矛盾背景下,将劳动、工作和作者身份之间的关系戏剧化的。因此,根据后期阿伦特的思想考察《远航》提供了一个机会来揭示早期现代主义实验的核心矛盾心理,即劳动——尤其是家庭劳动和女性化劳动——在多大程度上是或应该等同于文学作品。最后,我建议将伍尔夫和阿伦特一起阅读,说明了现代主义对机械化和异化劳动的批评的发展,它们与现代主义美学的关系,以及这种关于智力生活活动的文学和理论核心的矛盾心理。
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Labor, Thought, and the Work of Authorship: Virginia Woolf and Hannah Arendt
Abstract:This essay begins by examining Hannah Arendt’s meditations on labor, work, and thought in The Human Condition (1958) and The Life of the Mind (1978), in order to probe the relationship between representations of work and the work of literary composition in Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out (1915). I argue that these two female intellectuals exhibited a shared concern for exploring the nature of the peculiar “work” of the imagination as analogous to, and importantly distinct from, other kinds of labor. Turning to The Voyage Out, I show how the novel dramatizes this relationship between labor, work, and authorship within the context of the contradictions inherent in its fictionalized imperial setting. Examining The Voyage Out in light of the later Arendt’s thought thus offers an opportunity to uncover the ambivalence at the heart of an early modernist experiment regarding the extent to which labor—particularly domestic and feminized labor—is or should be equatable to the work of literary production. I conclude by suggesting that reading Woolf together with Arendt illuminates the development of modernist critiques of mechanized and alienated labor, their relationship to modernist aesthetics, and an ambivalence at the core of such literature and theory about the activity of intellectual life.
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