拜厄特与“永远的旅行者”:新英国小说的阅读实践

Q1 Arts and Humanities
N. Flynn
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虽然大多数读者都喜欢,或者至少钦佩A.S.拜厄特的布克奖获奖小说《附身》,但许多人对她之前和之后的作品感到困惑。本文认为,问题不在于小说本身,而在于读者阅读小说的方式。传统的实验小说或后现代小说的阅读方法无法让读者理解和享受她密集、令人眼花缭乱的作品。本文通过考察她的中篇小说《Morpho Eugenia》中的互文,特别是主人公威廉·亚当森(William Adamson)所写的两篇虚构文本,论证了中篇小说是如何产生一种不同的阅读实践的。用拜厄特的比喻,这篇文章建议读者成为“永久的旅行者”,这是一种全球读者模式,它将使读者不仅能够驾驭拜厄特的全部作品和新维多利亚时代的小说领域,还能驾驭新英国小说领域及其所在的拥挤的媒体景观。
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A.S. Byatt and the “perpetual traveller”: a reading practice for new British fiction
While most readers enjoyed, or at least admired A.S. Byatt’s Booker prize-winning novel “Possession”, many are puzzled by her work before and since. This essay argues that the problem is not the novels themselves, but rather the way that readers approach them. Conventional reading practices for experimental or postmodern fiction do not enable the reader to understand and enjoy her dense, dizzying work. By examining the intertexts in her novella “Morpho Eugenia,” in particular two imaginary texts written by the protagonist William Adamson, this essay demonstrates how the novella generates a different kind of reading practice. Using Byatt’s metaphor, the essay recommends that readers become “perpetual travelers,” a global model of readership that will enable readers to navigate not only Byatt’s oeuvre and the realm of neo-Victorian fiction, but also the field of new British fiction and the crowded media landscape in which it resides.
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Journal of English Studies
Journal of English Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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