细节的标记:普遍性、类型、差异

IF 0.2 2区文学 N/A LITERATURE

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-15 DOI:10.1215/00267929-10335706

Dora Zhang

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从小说细节在社会文化矩阵中特殊化和定位人物的前提出发，本文探讨了在拒绝某些规范的文本中细节会发生什么。这篇文章的重点是法国作家安妮·f·加兰塔的小说《斯芬克斯》(Sphinx, 1986)和托妮·莫里森(Toni Morrison)的短篇小说《朗诵》(Recitatif, 1983)，前者避免了小说中两位主人公的所有性别语言标记，后者从未揭示两位主人公的种族身份，其中一位是白人，另一位是黑人。借鉴Georg Lukács对现实主义和典型性的讨论，本文考虑了这些未标记的文本如何在个体和类型之间进行调解，以及它们对差异的表现方式。

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The Mark of the Detail: Universalism, Type, Difference

Departing from the premise that novelistic details particularize and locate characters in a sociocultural matrix, this essay examines what happens to the detail in texts that refuse certain norms of specification. The essay focuses on the French writer Anne F. Garréta’s novel Sphinx (1986), which avoids all linguistic markers of gender for its central pair of lovers, and Toni Morrison’s short story “Recitatif” (1983), which never reveals the racial identities of its two protagonists, one of whom is white and one Black. Drawing on Georg Lukács’s discussion of realism and typicality, the essay considers how these unmarked texts mediate between individual and type, as well as their approaches to the representation of difference.

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MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY LITERATURE-

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期刊介绍： MLQ focuses on change, both in literary practice and within the profession of literature itself. The journal is open to essays on literary change from the Middle Ages to the present and welcomes theoretical reflections on the relationship of literary change or historicism to feminism, ethnic studies, cultural materialism, discourse analysis, and all other forms of representation and cultural critique. Seeing texts as the depictions, agents, and vehicles of change, MLQ targets literature as a commanding and vital force.