Masochism, literature, and aesthetic form

IF 0.2 4区文学 0 LITERATURE

NEOHELICON Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI:10.1007/s11059-023-00709-6

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Abstract

Drawing inspiration from Gilles Deleuze’s conceptualization of masochism as an obsession with a perfect form, this essay argues that masochism offers literary critics opportunities to reconsider questions of beauty and form in literature. I use John Keats’s “Lamia,” Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, and James Joyce’s “The Dead” as case studies to examine how literary works incorporate masochism as a means of reflecting on their own creative processes—and how they would impact their readers. Masochism in literature first helps authors to conceive beautiful forms. The imperfections of these forms, in turn, allows the artists to re-create or revise those original forms to come up with better versions. In this process, texts about masochism open up complex affective dimensions of pleasure, pain, beauty, destruction, and slowness.

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受虐狂、文学和审美形式

摘要本文从吉勒-德勒兹（Gilles Deleuze）将受虐狂概念化为对完美形式的痴迷中汲取灵感，认为受虐狂为文学评论家提供了重新思考文学中的美与形式问题的机会。我以约翰-济慈的《拉米亚》、奥斯卡-王尔德的《道林-格雷的画像》和詹姆斯-乔伊斯的《亡灵》为案例，研究文学作品如何将受虐狂作为反思自身创作过程的一种手段，以及它们将如何影响读者。文学作品中的受虐狂首先帮助作者构思出优美的形式。反过来，这些形式的不完美又使艺术家们能够重新创造或修改这些原始形式，从而创造出更好的版本。在这一过程中，有关受虐狂的文本打开了快乐、痛苦、美丽、毁灭和缓慢等复杂的情感维度。

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