Ontology and Ecological Aesthetics in Jeanette Winterson’s Art & Lies

IF 0.1 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.2478/abcsj-2022-0002

Qateralnada Melhem

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Abstract This essay seeks to trace and investigate ecologically inflected concepts in Jeanette Winterson’s Art & Lies. The general tendency in ecological and ecocritical analyses has long been a selective focus on how nature is represented in literary texts; however, the ecological crisis, globalization, and technological factors that drive environmental degradation are all tethered at the root to preliminary concepts relating to human behaviours, beliefs, values, and expectations. This essay maintains that the diagnoses should begin at the level of culture since it is at that level that ecological problems begin to germinate. Through a discussion that draws on Federico Campagna’s Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality, this essay performs a thematic reading of Art & Lies. Using Campagna’s elucidation of the metaphysical assumptions that inform environmentally destructive practices, it argues that Art & Lies draws attention to these assumptions and identifies in them an obstacle to raising ecological awareness. Additionally, by employing an approach that draws on ecocritical scholarship, this essay discusses how formal and linguistic experimentation in Art & Lies inscribes ecological viewpoints and attempts the mission of redress that could benefit a more ecologically attuned future.

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珍妮特·温特森《艺术与谎言》中的本体论与生态美学

摘要本文试图追溯和研究珍妮特·温特森的《艺术与谎言》中生态变化的概念。长期以来，生态学和生态批评分析的总体趋势一直是选择性地关注文学文本中自然的表现方式;然而，导致环境退化的生态危机、全球化和技术因素，其根源都与与人类行为、信仰、价值观和期望有关的初步概念有关。本文认为，诊断应从文化层面开始，因为正是在文化层面，生态问题才开始萌芽。通过对费德里科·坎帕尼亚的《技术与魔法:现实的重建》的讨论，本文对《艺术与谎言》进行了主题解读。利用Campagna对影响环境破坏行为的形而上学假设的阐述，它认为《艺术与谎言》引起了人们对这些假设的关注，并在其中确定了提高生态意识的障碍。此外，通过采用一种借鉴生态批评学术的方法，本文讨论了《艺术与谎言》中的正式和语言实验如何体现生态观点，并尝试纠正的使命，从而使生态更加和谐的未来受益。

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American, British and Canadian Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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期刊介绍： Founded in 1999, American, British and Canadian Studies, the journal of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania, is currently published by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. Re-launched in refashioned, biannual format, American, British and Canadian Studies is an international, peer-reviewed journal that sets out to explore disciplinary developments in Anglophone Studies in the changing environment forged by the intersections of culture, technology and electronic information. Our primary goal is to bring together in productive dialogue scholars conducting advanced research in the theoretical humanities. As well as offering innovative approaches to influential crosscurrents in contemporary thinking, the journal seeks to contribute fresh angles to the academic subject of English and promote shape-changing research across conventional boundaries. By virtue of its dynamic and varied profile and of the intercultural dialogue that it caters for, ABC Studies aims to fill a gap in the Romanian academic arena, and function as the first publication to approach Anglophone studies in a multi-disciplinary perspective. Within the proposed range of diversity, our major scope is to provide close examinations and lucid analyses of the role and future of the academic institutions at the cutting edge of high-tech. With this end in view, we especially invite contributions in the fields of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Area Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Language and Linguistics, Multimedia and Digital Arts, Translation Studies and related subjects. With its wide subject range, American, British and Canadian Studies aims to become one of the academic community’s premium scholarly resources.