The Global and the Multilinear: Novelistic Forms for Planetary Processes

IF 0.5 2区文学 0 LITERATURE

STUDIES IN THE NOVEL Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1353/sdn.2023.a905805

Marco Caracciolo

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Abstract

Abstract:Numerous scholars have argued that narrative multilinearity defines the contemporary novel's engagement with planetary processes ranging from globalization to ecological and migrant crises. This article seeks to develop and clarify the notion of multilinearity, adopting a narratological framework that distinguishes between three dimensions of multilinear novels—what I call their linkage, distribution, and focus. I discuss examples for each of these dimensions, examining their interaction and also investigating, from a broadly New Formalist perspective, how they speak to larger tensions, inherent in globalization, between cosmopolitan aspirations and a history of inequalities. In the final section, I turn to Hanya Yanagihara's novel To Paradise as a powerful illustration of how multilinear form is able to probe the complexity and moral murkiness of global processes, particularly when novelistic narrative resists the temptation of a closed form and instead embraces the instability of the multilinear.

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全局与多元线性:行星过程的小说形式

摘要：许多学者认为，叙事的多语言性定义了当代小说对从全球化到生态危机和移民危机等全球进程的参与。本文试图发展和澄清多语言性的概念，采用叙事学框架来区分多语言小说的三个维度——我称之为它们的联系、分布和焦点。我讨论了每一个维度的例子，考察了它们的相互作用，并从广义的新形式主义角度调查了它们如何与全球化固有的、国际化愿望和不平等历史之间的更大紧张关系对话。在最后一节中，我转向柳原汉也的小说《去天堂》，它有力地说明了多语言形式如何能够探究全球过程的复杂性和道德模糊性，尤其是当小说叙事抵制封闭形式的诱惑，转而拥抱多语言的不稳定性时。

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期刊介绍： From its inception, Studies in the Novel has been dedicated to building a scholarly community around the world-making potentialities of the novel. Studies in the Novel started as an idea among several members of the English Department of the University of North Texas during the summer of 1965. They determined that there was a need for a journal “devoted to publishing critical and scholarly articles on the novel with no restrictions on either chronology or nationality of the novelists studied.” The founding editor, University of North Texas professor of contemporary literature James W. Lee, envisioned a journal of international scope and influence. Since then, Studies in the Novel has staked its reputation upon publishing incisive scholarship on the canon-forming and cutting-edge novelists that have shaped the genre’s rich history. The journal continues to break new ground by promoting new theoretical approaches, a broader international scope, and an engagement with the contemporary novel as a form of social critique.