Idols of the Fragment: Barthes and Critique

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Simon Reader
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Critics often valorize fragmentary writing as a device for subverting systems and liberating thought. Roland Barthes is an acknowledged aficionado of this style; this essay argues that he is equally one of its astute skeptics. While his early writings announce the need to dismantle bourgeois ideology in scattered strokes, his later works scrutinize the value of the piecemeal writing even as they ramify its aesthetic possibilities. Barthes's ambivalence replays an episode from the eighteenth century, when the Jena Romantics abruptly renounced the fragment on the grounds that its utopian promise easily devolved into parochial uses. Twenty-first century publishers continue to advertise fragmentary books as avant-garde provocations, but we should view this gesture as a conceit with a long history.

片段的偶像:巴特与批判
摘要:批评家们常常推崇片段写作,将其视为一种颠覆体系、解放思想的手段。罗兰-巴特是这种文体的公认拥趸,本文则认为他同样是这种文体的精明怀疑者之一。他的早期著作宣称有必要以零散的笔触瓦解资产阶级意识形态,而他的晚期作品则仔细审视了零散写作的价值,甚至还扩展了其美学可能性。巴特的矛盾心理重现了十八世纪的一段插曲,当时耶拿浪漫派突然放弃了片段,理由是其乌托邦式的承诺很容易沦为狭隘的用途。二十一世纪的出版商继续将片段图书作为前卫的挑衅来宣传,但我们应该将这种姿态视为一种历史悠久的自负。
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New Literary History
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期刊介绍: New Literary History focuses on questions of theory, method, interpretation, and literary history. Rather than espousing a single ideology or intellectual framework, it canvasses a wide range of scholarly concerns. By examining the bases of criticism, the journal provokes debate on the relations between literary and cultural texts and present needs. A major international forum for scholarly exchange, New Literary History has received six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
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