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The Novel and Media: Three Essays
Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2019-01-02 , DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2019.1595493
John Frow , Melissa Hardie , Kelly Rich

These three short papers were initially formulated as contributions to a roundtable discussion on The Novel and Media held at Harvard University’s Mahindra Humanities Center in May 2018. Their brief was to contribute to the recent project of methodological reflection set in train by a resurgence of formalist analysis in literary criticism by thinking about the intersection of the novel form, novel theory, and media studies; at the most general level our challenge was to reflect upon the relation between the medium and the form of the literary text, and beyond that about the relation between the print medium in which the novel originated and the other media which form its environment and on which it frequently reflects. We start, then, with a reading of one of the most influential recent attempts to rethink formalist analysis, Caroline Levine’s Forms; John Frow contrasts her project with Jonathan Grossman’s Kittlerian reading of The Pickwick Papers in terms of the relation between two media of communication (coaching and the postal service) and the two novelistic forms that ‘correspond’ to them, in order to open up some questions about the limits and the appropriate focus of an analysis of novelistic forms. Melissa Hardie then moves to a consideration of the novelistic medium at its most material, taking the ‘queer materiality’ of Alvin Lustig’s 1948 jacket design for Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood as an index both of the ‘pulp’ presentation by which modernist texts acquired a wider readership and of the ‘queer ekphrasis’ of the novel itself. And Kelly Rich reads Zadie Smith’s NW as offering a robust account of the encounter between the novel as a narrative genre and various forms of digital media. In Alan Liu’s words, the novel is engaged in and works to illuminate the ‘thick, unpredictable zone of contact...where (mis)understandings of new media are negotiated along twisting, partial, and contradictory vectors’.

中文翻译:

小说与媒体:三篇散文

最初撰写这三篇简短的论文是对2018年5月在哈佛大学马辛德拉人文中心举行的关于小说与媒体的圆桌讨论的贡献。它们的简介是通过形式主义分析的复兴为最近进行的方法论反思项目做出贡献。通过考虑小说形式,小说理论和媒体研究的交叉点来进行文学批评;在最一般的层面上,我们面临的挑战是反思媒介与文学文本形式之间的关系,以及超越小说起源的印刷媒介与形成其环境以及所处环境的其他媒介之间的关系。它经常反映出来。然后,我们从阅读最近重新思考形式主义分析的最有影响力的尝试之一开始,Caroline Levine的形式;约翰·弗罗(John Frow)将她的项目与乔纳森·格罗斯曼(Jonathan Grossman)的基特里安式的《皮克威克纸》读作进行了对比,就两种传播媒介(教练和邮政)和与之“对应”的两种新颖形式之间的关系进行了比较,从而提出了一些问题。关于小说形式分析的局限性和适当的重点。然后,梅利莎·哈迪(Melissa Hardie)着眼于最新颖的媒介,将阿尔文·卢斯蒂格(Alvin Lustig)1948年为朱纳·巴恩斯(Djuna Barnes)的夜床木设计的夹克的“奇特物质性”作为索引,既代表了现代主义文本获得更广泛读者群的“纸浆”表现,以及小说本身的“同性恋怪癖”。凯利·里奇(Kelly Rich)读扎迪·史密斯(Zadie Smith)的《西北》时,他很好地说明了小说作为叙事类型与各种形式的数字媒体之间的相遇。用刘艾伦的话说,这部小说正在从事并试图阐明“厚厚的,不可预测的接触区域……在这里,新媒体的(误)理解是沿着扭曲,局部和矛盾的媒介进行谈判的”。
更新日期:2019-01-02
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