Sarah Fielding's Double Stratagem in The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia

IF 0.2 3区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.1353/sel.2021.a903388

E. Wilputte

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Abstract

Abstract:The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia is not simply a fanciful delivering of history but also a clever interrogation of biography and fiction. A narratological analysis of Sarah Fielding's introduction and The Lives reveals how Fielding's adaptation is simultaneously true and untrue, and how she subtly parallels her authorial practice with Cleopatra's contrivances. Fielding's constant elision among author, subject, and genres reveals the unsettling, yet alluring, power of fiction, and of prose narrative generally. Exposing the false dialectic between biography and fiction, Fielding challenges readers to judge the eponymous women, her own artful performances, and the purported dialectic between fiction and history.

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莎拉·菲尔丁在《克利奥帕特拉与屋大维娅的生活》中的双重策略

摘要:《克利奥帕特拉与屋大维娅的生活》不仅是对历史的想象性讲述，也是对传记和小说的一次巧妙的拷问。对莎拉·菲尔丁的介绍和《生活》的叙事学分析揭示了菲尔丁的改编是如何同时真实和不真实的，以及她如何巧妙地将她的写作实践与克利奥帕特拉的设计相比较。菲尔丁对作者、主题和类型的不断省略揭示了小说和散文叙事的令人不安但又诱人的力量。菲尔丁揭露了传记与小说之间的虚假辩证法，挑战读者去评判同名女性，她自己的艺术表演，以及虚构与历史之间的所谓辩证法。

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STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES-

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期刊介绍： SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.