弗兰肯斯坦的怪物向西走:赫尔南·迪亚兹的《在远方》、气候变化科幻小说和限制文学

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MFS-Modern Fiction Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/mfs.2023.0006

Pieter Vermeulen

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摘要:本文将赫尔南·迪亚兹的小说《远方》看作是对传统西部片(尤其是约翰·福特的《探索者》)和玛丽·雪莱的《科学怪人》在气候变化世界中的改写。与19世纪帝国和技术过度扩张的文献中对超越和征服的坚持不同，《在远方》在形式上和主题上都传达了一种限制的精神。通过坚持对以往可能性的穷尽，这部小说为气候小说提供了一个新的模板，超越了目前占主导地位的投机和现实主义模式。

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Frankenstein's Monster Goes West: Hernan Diaz's In the Distance, Cli-Fi, and the Literature of Limitation

Abstract:This essay reads Hernan Diaz's novel In the Distance as both a rewriting of the traditional western (especially John Ford's The Searchers) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in a climate-changed world. Over and against the insistence on transcendence and conquest in those documents of nineteenth-century imperial and technological overreach, In the Distance both formally and thematically conveys an ethos of limitation. By insisting on the exhaustion of former possibilities, the novel provides a new template for climate fiction beyond its current dominant speculative and realist modes.

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期刊介绍： Modern Fiction Studies publishes engaging articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary fiction. Emphasizing historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches, the journal encourages a dialogue between fiction and theory, publishing work that offers new theoretical insights, clarity of style, and completeness of argument. Modern Fiction Studies alternates general issues dealing with a wide range of texts with special issues focused on single topics or individual writers.