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Joseph Conrad's Atmospheric Modernism: Enveloping Fog, Narrative Frames, and Affective Attunement
Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2018-01-01 , DOI: 10.1353/sdn.2018.0024
Anna Jones Abramson

Abstract:This article proposes "atmosphere" as a new paradigm for theorizing literary modernism and the reading practices that accompany it. Joseph Conrad is a famously atmospheric writer, but many have regarded literary atmosphere as simply another word for impressionism. I show that Conrad's writing is memorably atmospheric because of the way he manipulates specifically narrative devices such as the embedded frame structure. We expect frames to differentiate textual layers, but in Heart of Darkness (1899) brooding gloom and enveloping fog creep across distinct geographical locations, temporal registers, and narrative perspectives. Readers, like the text's characters, find themselves surrounded by a prevailing atmosphere that is at once meteorological and affective. While the plots of many Victorian novels steadily build towards a grand revelation in the form of the fog being cleared up, Conrad's fog does not truly disappear even when it appears to lift. Within the worlds of Heart of Darkness and "The Tale" (1917), characters discover that fog cannot easily be cleared up—it must be sensed from within through processes of affective and bodily attunement. I argue that as readers we must realize the same: when it comes to atmosphere, established practices of "decoding" are insufficient. This article ultimately calls for a new set of atmospheric reading practices in which the vision and cognition of decoding give way to the phenomenology of affective attunement.

中文翻译:

约瑟夫·康拉德 (Joseph Conrad) 的大气现代主义:笼罩雾气、叙事框架和情感调和

摘要:本文提出“氛围”作为对文学现代主义及其伴随的阅读实践进行理论化的新范式。约瑟夫·康拉德 (Joseph Conrad) 是著名的大气作家,但许多人将文学氛围视为印象派的另一种说法。我展示了康拉德的写作令人难忘的氛围,因为他操纵特定叙事设备的方式,例如嵌入式框架结构。我们期望用框架来区分文本层,但在《黑暗之心》(1899)中,阴郁的阴霾和笼罩着的雾气蔓延到不同的地理位置、时间记录和叙事视角。读者,就像文本中的人物一样,发现自己被一种既具有气象意义又具有情感意义的普遍氛围所包围。虽然许多维多利亚时代小说的情节以迷雾被清除的形式稳步发展,但康拉德的迷雾即使在看起来消散时也并没有真正消失。在《黑暗之心》和《故事》(1917)的世界中,人物发现迷雾不容易被清除——它必须通过情感和身体协调过程从内部感知。我认为,作为读者,我们必须意识到这一点:在氛围方面,“解码”的既定做法是不够的。本文最终呼吁一套新的大气阅读实践,其中解码的愿景和认知让位于情感协调的现象学。即使看起来消散,雾也不会真正消失。在《黑暗之心》和《故事》(1917)的世界中,人物发现迷雾不容易被清除——它必须通过情感和身体协调过程从内部感知。我认为,作为读者,我们必须意识到这一点:在氛围方面,“解码”的既定做法是不够的。本文最终呼吁一套新的大气阅读实践,其中解码的愿景和认知让位于情感协调的现象学。即使看起来消散,雾也不会真正消失。在《黑暗之心》和《故事》(1917)的世界中,人物发现迷雾不容易被清除——它必须通过情感和身体协调过程从内部感知。我认为,作为读者,我们必须意识到这一点:在氛围方面,“解码”的既定做法是不够的。本文最终呼吁一套新的大气阅读实践,其中解码的愿景和认知让位于情感协调的现象学。在气氛方面,"解码"的既定做法是不够的。本文最终呼吁一套新的大气阅读实践,其中解码的愿景和认知让位于情感协调的现象学。在气氛方面,"解码"的既定做法是不够的。本文最终呼吁一套新的大气阅读实践,其中解码的愿景和认知让位于情感协调的现象学。
更新日期:2018-01-01
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