美丽的鸟儿和狩猎的飞机早期飞行时代的福特-马多克斯-福特

Humanities Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI:10.3390/h13030076
Paul Skinner
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1903 年 12 月,莱特兄弟实现了首次持续、可控的动力飞行,人们对这一成就的反应从完全漠不关心到热烈庆祝不一而足,并逐渐形成了一种信念,从认为战争将不可能发生,到充满信心地预测入侵和大范围的破坏。各机构、政府和个人的政策和观念不断发生变化,并经常突然逆转。当战争来临时,最初作为侦察工具的飞机迅速成为前线人员面临的众多危险中的一种,并进一步加剧了战斗人员与平民之间的分歧。飞机故事的第一个动态阶段与早期现代主义的主要时期重叠。本文试图在这一更广泛的背景下,描绘福特-马多克斯-福特的经历和反应。和其他许多人一样,在描述性或比较性术语尚未出现的早期阶段,他开始接触美和自然世界的图像。接下来,他在法国服役期间,在战场上遇到了它们。他对飞机的矛盾心理与他早期对火车、汽车和电话的反应既相似又不同。飞机的相对稀有性、物理距离和隐喻距离,以及福特本人对航空的魅力和活力的明显免疫力,使他能够回顾过去,在轶事、自传和小说中将飞机作为威胁和救星。
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Beautiful Birds and Hun Planes: Ford Madox Ford in the Early Age of Flight
Reactions to the Wright brothers’ achievement of the first sustained, controlled powered flight in December 1903 ranged from complete indifference to voluble celebration and evolved into convictions that ranged from a belief that war would be rendered impossible to confident predictions of invasion and widespread destruction. The policies and perceptions of institutions, governments and individuals were subject to constant revision and often abrupt reversal. When war came, the aeroplane, which began as an instrument of reconnaissance, rapidly became one more hazard among many for those at the front and a further point of division between combatants and civilians, for whom airships and air raids tended to loom larger. The first dynamic phase in the story of the aeroplane overlaps with the major early modernist period. This essay seeks to map, within that wider context, the experiences and responses of Ford Madox Ford. He began, like many others, with images of beauty and the natural world in that early stage when a functioning range of descriptive or comparative terms had yet to emerge. He encountered them next in the theatre of war during his service in France. His ambivalence towards aeroplanes was both similar to and different from his earlier responses to trains, cars and telephones. Their relative rarity, as well as their both physical and metaphorical distance, and Ford’s own apparent immunity to the glamour and dynamism of aviation enabled him to view them retrospectively and employ them in anecdote, autobiography and fiction as both threat and saviour.
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