Deviant focalisation in Virgil's Aeneid

IF 0.5 3区 历史学 0 CLASSICS
D. Fowler
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Abstract

My subject is point of view in the Aeneid . I want to make some theoretical points about that concept, and to discuss some examples. In writing this paper, however, I have come to realise that underneath there lies an attempt to come to terms with the work on Virgil of two of my elders, betters, and friends, Oliver Lyne and Gian Biagio Conte, to whom this piece is offered with affection. But I shall not try to conceal the Oedipal nature of these encounters. As will be seen, there is also an element of prolepsis : I want to forestall a particular line of interpretation about the Aeneid which I sense is about to make its appearance. In my title I use the term ‘focalisation’ rather than ‘point of view’. The term is Genette's, later taken up especially by Mieke Bal. I use it for three reasons. First, I believe the reason that led Genette to coin it was a valid one, and perhaps the single most important proposition in his narratology. Genette criticised traditional accounts of point of view for confusing two distinct questions: ‘who speaks?’, and ‘who sees?’. In relation to any textual feature, the answers to these questions may be different. For the first phenomenon, we have the term ‘voice’, and it is helpful to have a separate term for the second; that is, focalisation.
维吉尔的《埃涅伊德》中的异常聚焦
我的主题是《埃涅伊德》中的观点。我想就这个概念提出一些理论观点,并讨论一些例子。然而,在写这篇文章的过程中,我开始意识到,在这篇文章的背后,我试图接受我的两位长辈、导师和朋友奥利弗·莱恩(Oliver Lyne)和吉安·比亚吉奥·孔蒂(Gian Biagio Conte)对维吉尔的研究,这篇文章是对他们充满感情的。但我不想掩饰这些遭遇的俄狄浦斯本性。正如我们将看到的,这里也有预言的元素:,我想阻止对埃涅伊德的一种特别的解释,我感觉它即将出现。在我的标题中,我使用了“聚焦”而不是“观点”。这个词是Genette的,后来被mike Bal特别采用。我使用它有三个原因。首先,我相信让Genette创造这个词的原因是有根据的,这可能是他的叙事中最重要的一个命题。Genette批评传统的观点描述混淆了两个不同的问题:“谁说话?”、“谁看见了?”对于任何文本特征,这些问题的答案可能是不同的。对于第一种现象,我们有“声音”这个术语,对于第二种现象,我们有一个单独的术语是有帮助的;那就是聚焦。
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