模仿前奏:约翰·考伯·波伊斯自传

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Romanticism Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI:10.3366/rom.2023.0613
Kim Wheatley
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本文将英国20世纪小说家约翰·考伯·波伊斯1934年的散文《自传》作为对华兹华斯《序曲》的恶搞。它认为波伊斯修改了华兹华斯情感成长、失落和恢复的轨迹,有时支持,但更多的是讽刺诗人年轻时对自然的热爱和他成年后的超然想象。在这样做的过程中,波伊斯预料到最近的评论家们会对华兹华斯的“意义语言”进行修正解读,这些评论家们用唯物主义的术语来解释华兹华斯。波伊斯代表了华兹华斯作为一个身体和性感觉的诗人,记录了《序曲》对以生理为中心的解释的开放性。波伊斯自嘲地改写了华兹华斯思想成长的故事,揭穿了《序曲》中与超越的高潮相遇。然而最终,对波伊斯和华兹华斯来说,自然引导他超越自然。因此,波伊斯的《自传》有助于指出关注“华兹华斯血肉的物理品质”的方法的局限性。
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Parodying The Prelude: The Autobiography of John Cowper Powys
This essay reads the 1934 prose Autobiography of the twentieth-century British novelist John Cowper Powys as a parody of Wordsworth’s Prelude. It argues that Powys revises Wordsworth’s trajectory of emotional growth, loss and recovery in ways that sometimes endorse and more often satirise the poet’s youthful love of nature and his adult transcendental imaginings. In doing so, Powys anticipates the revisionary readings of recent critics who have interpreted Wordsworth’s ‘language of the sense’ in materialist terms. Powys represents Wordsworth as a poet of physical – and sexual – sensation, registering The Prelude’s openness to physiology-focused interpretation. Powys self-mockingly rewrites the story of the growth of Wordsworth’s mind, debunking The Prelude’s climactic encounters with transcendence. Ultimately however, for Powys as for Wordsworth, nature leads him beyond nature. Powys’s Autobiography thus helps to suggest the limits of approaches focused on what Powys calls ‘the physical quality of Wordsworth’s flesh and blood’.
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Romanticism
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期刊介绍: The most distinguished scholarly journal of its kind edited and published in Britain, Romanticism offers a forum for the flourishing diversity of Romantic studies today. Focusing on the period 1750-1850, it publishes critical, historical, textual and bibliographical essays prepared to the highest scholarly standards, reflecting the full range of current methodological and theoretical debate. With an extensive reviews section, Romanticism constitutes a vital international arena for scholarly debate in this liveliest field of literary studies.
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