{"title":"Theory of Mind and Experimental Autobiography: Alain Robbe-Grillet and Assia Djebar","authors":"M. Hulstyn","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0012","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper argues that experimental autobiographies can help readers take the perspectives of others when the practice of theorizing other minds become, at best, tired, and at worst, dehumanizing. The essay studies two experimental texts: one that eschews the traditional means of communicating psychological character development in order to explore the world outside the human (Alain Robbe-Grillet's Le Miroir qui revient), and another that deliberately invests in the representation of marginalized persons as an ethical imperative (Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia). This confluence suggests that perspective is an unalienable aspect of human subjectivity, in literature as in life.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/phl.2021.0012","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0012","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This paper argues that experimental autobiographies can help readers take the perspectives of others when the practice of theorizing other minds become, at best, tired, and at worst, dehumanizing. The essay studies two experimental texts: one that eschews the traditional means of communicating psychological character development in order to explore the world outside the human (Alain Robbe-Grillet's Le Miroir qui revient), and another that deliberately invests in the representation of marginalized persons as an ethical imperative (Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia). This confluence suggests that perspective is an unalienable aspect of human subjectivity, in literature as in life.
摘要:本文认为,当对他人思想进行理论化的实践往好了说是疲惫的,往坏了说是非人化的时候,实验自传可以帮助读者从他人的角度出发。本文研究了两个实验文本:一个是为了探索人类之外的世界而避开传统的沟通心理性格发展的手段(阿兰·罗伯·格里耶的《Miroir qui revient》),另一个是故意将边缘化者的表现作为一种道德义务(阿西亚·杰巴尔的《爱,幻想曲》)。这种融合表明,视角是人类主体性的一个不可剥夺的方面,无论是在文学中还是在生活中。
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For more than a quarter century, Philosophy and Literature has explored the dialogue between literary and philosophical studies. The journal offers a constant source of fresh, stimulating ideas in the aesthetics of literature, theory of criticism, philosophical interpretation of literature, and literary treatment of philosophy. Philosophy and Literature challenges the cant and pretensions of academic priesthoods by publishing an assortment of lively, wide-ranging essays, notes, and reviews that are written in clear, jargon-free prose. In his regular column, editor Denis Dutton targets the fashions and inanities of contemporary intellectual life.