Anachronism and Idiocy: History, Realism, and the Aesthetics of Verisimilitude

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
Sonia Werner
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Abstract:This paper examines the concept of anachronism in relation to idea of belatedness to assess its deployment as a temporal marker of progress in historical and literary contexts. Werner analyzes a few instances from Marx and Engels's early critical corpus in which they associate anachronism not only with political and industrial backwardness, but also with the discourse of "idiocy," which they associate with the rural, pre-capitalist milieu. Her essay then tracks how anachronism conceived as belatedness falls under equal condemnation amid established theories of literary realism by drawing from Auerbach's "Mimesis" as well as Lukács's key writings concerning realist aesthetics. Werner argues that anachronism becomes identified with belatedness when contemporaneity is defined by way of material conditions associated with capitalist modernity. Likewise, she demonstrates how the formulation of history that undergirds Marx and Engels's enterprise as well as the rise of nineteenth-century literary realism indexes the emergence of a new conceptualization of verisimilitude that departs from the Aristotelian sense of the term.
时代错误与愚蠢:历史、现实主义与逼真美学
摘要:本文考察了“时代错误”概念与“迟来”概念的关系,以评估其在历史和文学语境中作为进步的时间标志的部署。维尔纳分析了马克思和恩格斯早期批判语库中的几个例子,在这些语库中,他们不仅将时代错误与政治和工业落后联系在一起,还将“白痴”的话语与农村、前资本主义环境联系在一起。然后,她的文章通过奥尔巴赫的“模仿”以及Lukács关于现实主义美学的关键著作,追踪了被视为迟来性的时代错误如何在文学现实主义的既定理论中受到同样的谴责。维尔纳认为,当当代性被与资本主义现代性相关的物质条件所定义时,时代错误就等同于迟来性。同样,她也展示了支撑马克思和恩格斯事业的历史构想,以及19世纪文学现实主义的兴起,是如何显示出一种新的真实性概念的出现,这种概念与亚里士多德的术语意义背道而驰。
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