我的恶魔朋友Vehlmann 和 Kerascoët 的《萨塔尼亚》中的哥特式漫画、异想天开的恐怖和对威廉-布莱克的改写

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Gothic Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI:10.3366/gothic.2023.0178

Catherine Spooner

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本文发展了 "异想天开的恐怖 "这一概念，这一概念在我的著作《后千年哥特》（Post-millennial Gothic：喜剧、浪漫与快乐哥特的崛起》（2017）一书中提出的 "异想天开的恐怖 "概念，指的是那些有意将滑稽可爱与阴险、畸形或怪诞融合在一起的文本。我认为，法比安-韦尔曼（Fabien Vehlmann）和凯拉斯科埃（Kerascoët）的绘本小说《萨塔尼亚》（Satania，2016 年）借鉴了浪漫主义诗人兼艺术家威廉-布莱克（William Blake）的作品，将异想天开的恐怖故事延伸到了新的方向。通过改写布莱克在《天堂与地狱的联姻》（1793 年）中对地狱之旅的幻想描述，并暗指《纯真与经验之歌》（1789/1794 年），《萨塔尼亚》揭示了异想天开的恐怖背后严肃的伦理层面。在此过程中，它质疑了与儿童文学和青少年文学相关的成熟叙事，并使之复杂化。文章最后指出，《萨塔尼亚》中女主人公查理与恶魔的关系借鉴了布莱克式的对立友谊模式，指向一种 "修复 "形式的哥特式作品，在这种作品中，异类既没有被抹去，也没有被驱逐，而是被拥抱和珍视。

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My Friend the Devil: Gothic Comics, the Whimsical Macabre and Rewriting William Blake in Vehlmann and Kerascoët’s Satania

This article develops the concept of the ‘whimsical macabre’, introduced in my book Post-millennial Gothic: Comedy, Romance and the Rise of Happy Gothic (2017) to refer to texts which deliberately fuse the comic and cute with the sinister, monstrous or grotesque. I propose that Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët’s graphic novel Satania (2016) extends the whimsical macabre in new directions, by drawing on the work of Romantic poet and artist William Blake, whose illustrated books are often cited as forerunners of modern comics. By rewriting Blake’s visionary account of a journey into the infernal regions in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793) and alluding to Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789/1794), Satania reveals the serious ethical dimensions that underlie the whimsical macabre. In doing so, it interrogates and complicates the maturational narrative associated with children’s and young adult literature. The article concludes by suggesting that Satania’s heroine Charlie’s relationship with her demon draws on a Blakeian model of friendship in opposition, pointing towards a ‘reparative’ form of Gothic in which otherness is neither erased nor expelled, but embraced and cherished.

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Gothic Studies HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： The official journal of the International Gothic Association considers the field of Gothic studies from the eighteenth century to the present day. Gothic Studies opens a forum for dialogue and cultural criticism, and provides a specialist journal for scholars working in a field which is today taught or researched in academic institutions around the globe. The journal invites contributions from scholars working within any period of the Gothic; interdisciplinary scholarship is especially welcome, as are studies of works across the range of media, beyond the written word.