斯科特的鬼影

IF 0.2 N/A HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Gothic Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.3366/gothic.2022.0120

I. Duncan

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摘要

鬼视情节激进化是斯科特历史小说的一个关键手法，其中文化差异服从于历史差异的发展逻辑。光谱幻影不仅标志着幽灵预言家即将死亡，而且标志着一场历史性的灭绝，即超自然现象真实存在的生命世界。本文在《拉默摩尔的新娘》（1819）和《修道院》（1820）中探讨了这种历史主义逻辑的复杂性。在前者中，幽灵是一个纯粹的边缘时代的特有现象，不受历史目的的影响：将现在悬置在未能过去的过去和未能到来的未来之间，清空了它的本体论实质。在《少林寺》中，鬼魂用理性的解释粗暴地抗拒驱魔。斯科特的《白娘子》指出了新教改革造成的历史破坏的严重性：这种不连续性对知识、信仰和想象力的影响比王朝或政治制度的革命更为暴力。

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Scott's Ghost-Seeing

Episodes of ghost-seeing radicalize a key device of Walter Scott’s historical novels, in which cultural difference submits to a developmental logic of historical difference. The spectral apparition signals not only the ghost-seer’s imminent death but also a historical extinction, that of the life-world in which supernatural phenomena count as real. This essay considers the complication of this historicist logic in The Bride of Lammermoor (1819) and The Monastery (1820). In the former, ghostliness is endemic to a time of pure liminality, unmoored from historical purpose: the suspension of the present between a past that fails to pass and a future that fails to arrive empties it of ontological substance. In The Monastery, the ghost rudely resists exorcism by rational explanation. Scott’s White Lady indexes the severity of the historical breach inflicted by the Protestant Reformation: a discontinuity more violent, in its impact upon knowledge, belief and the imagination, than revolutions of dynasties or political systems.

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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.