ABSTRACT

In this article, I investigate the operative force of the insufficiently studied beast fable in John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi in light of the physics-poetics of the Lucretian clinamen and by bringing together theoretical perspectives from Michel Serres, Jacques Derrida, and Louis Marin. The Duchess’s fable is a radical intervention capable of arresting the drama’s tragic structures. The genre of fable marks a declining toward void, toward the loss of husband and children, that speaks what is looming — death, the wolf at the door — even as it forestalls loss through such telling.

中文翻译：

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在火中游泳：马尔菲公爵夫人中的卢克雷西亚野兽寓言

摘要

在本文中，我根据卢克雷特派的物理诗学，并结合米歇尔·塞雷斯、雅克·德里达和路易斯·马林的理论观点，研究了约翰·韦伯斯特的《马尔菲公爵夫人》中研究不足的野兽寓言的作用力。公爵夫人的寓言是一种激进的干预，能够阻止戏剧的悲剧结构。寓言的体裁标志着走向虚无，走向失去丈夫和孩子，这说明了迫在眉睫的东西——死亡，门口的狼——即使它通过这样的讲述来预防损失。