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The True Heart: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s impolitics of love
Textual Practice Pub Date : 2021-03-16 , DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2021.1900359
Karen Ann Schaller 1
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ABSTRACT

What can Sylvia Townsend Warner teach literary criticism about love? Despite critical neglect for this twentieth-century British writer, I argue that Warner’s work can help us think about how we read love. Debates about Warner’s significance persistently involve, and revolve around, her writing of love and its revolutionary potential. But if her love plots offer her readers the hope of a transformational politics, its expressions also invoke critical discomfort, even shame: to love Warner is to love a writer whose politics of love also engage attachments to imperialism, to eugenics, and to difficult discourses of race and class. If these ugly adjacencies disrupt recuperative readings that put love’s potential at the heart of their critical projects, however, this tells us there is a politics of love at work not only in Warner’s writing, but in the very critical narratives we bring to her work. Whether or not we are Warner scholars doesn’t matter: critical attachments to love’s potential are not limited to Warner’s moment, but alive in our own.



中文翻译:

真实的心:西尔维娅汤森华纳的爱情不政治

摘要

Sylvia Townsend Warner 能教给关于爱情的文学批评什么?尽管对这位 20 世纪英国作家的严重忽视,我认为华纳的作品可以帮助我们思考我们如何阅读爱情。关于华纳意义的争论一直围绕着她的爱情写作及其革命潜力展开。但是,如果她的爱情情节为她的读者提供了转型政治的希望,那么它的表达也会引起批评的不适,甚至是羞耻:爱华纳就是爱一个作家,他的爱情政治也与帝国主义、优生学和艰难的话语联系在一起种族和阶级。然而,如果这些丑陋的邻接破坏了将爱的潜力置于其关键项目核心的恢复性阅读,那么这告诉我们不仅在华纳的作品中存在爱的政治,但在我们为她的作品带来的非常关键的叙述中。我们是否是华纳学者并不重要:对爱情潜力的批判性依恋不仅限于华纳的时刻,而是活在我们自己的时刻。

更新日期:2021-03-16
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