This essay uses Charles Taylor’s theory of evaluative frameworks to solve a problem that has challenged literary theory and historiography for some time: how do we square the tension between the private uses and the public authority of reading? Taylor’s notion of strong value brings out literature’s often-overlooked similarities with religious-moral or civil-sacred domains, while his concept of weak value helps us to understand more mundane moods of purpose-rational reading. Combining the concept of evaluative frameworks with a socio-institutional account of literary authority, this essay sketches an alternative history of reading, with a focus on the shifting authority of “spatial reading” (defined as attention to formal and intertextual depth). Looking at developments from the 1780s to the present, I will show how the distinction between spatial and flat reading emerges in the eighteenth century, is transformed by the modernist institutionalization of high- and middlebrow notions of spatial form, and continues to provoke tensions between the civil sphere and the literary-artistic field (as the recent scandal around Peter Handke’s Nobel Prize attests).

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空间阅读：评价框架与文学权威的形成

本文使用查尔斯·泰勒的评价框架理论来解决一个问题，该问题长期以来一直对文学理论和史学构成挑战：我们如何平衡阅读的私人用途和公共权威之间的紧张关系？泰勒的强价值概念揭示了文学与宗教道德或公民神圣领域经常被忽视的相似之处，而他的弱价值概念有助于我们理解目的理性阅读的更多世俗情绪。本文将评价框架的概念与对文学权威的社会制度解释相结合，勾勒出另一种阅读历史，重点关注“空间阅读”（定义为对形式和互文深度的关注）的权力转移。纵观 1780 年代至今的发展，