‘Notorious Beyond Any Other European Woman of Her Generation’: The Case of Count(ess) Sarolta/Sándor Vay

The paper investigates the curious case of the Hungarian Count(ess) Sarolta/Sándor Vay, journalist and writer, but, above all, a notorious gender bender in late nineteenth-century Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The article examines her case in the context of the history of European cross-dressing and of narrative transvestism. The author argues that nineteenth-century dandyism provided an effective cultural framework for Vay’s contemporaries to accept her unconventional presence in fin-de-siècle Hungarian society. Moreover, she claims that Vay’s narrative transvestism may also be construed within the cultural phenomenon of dandyism, as her writing practices prove to be further instruments for her self-fashioning. Finally, she concludes that Vay’s gender performance and narrative transvestism become illustrative examples of instances that both frame and confuse accepted cultural patterns, destabilize gender binarism, and participate in its maintenance.     

新感觉派作品中的现代性

试图从赞美都市,肯定欲望的合理性,肯定现代文明带来的进步,肯定科学关注科学,打通科学与文学的界限这几点上说明新感觉派作品所具有的现代性。     

纨绔主义与审美现代性

纨绔主义既是一种凡俗的生存风格,也是一种艺术审美诉求,典型地体现了现代文化的审美性质态。纨绔主义在19世纪欧洲的发展演变过程,也是审美性因素在这个运动中不断增强的过程。纨绔主义自身蕴涵的矛盾以及它与资本主义社会现实之间的冲突,在这个过程中不断激化,终于使其陷入唯美与媚俗、先锋与颓废的尴尬处境。纨绔主义的困境,深刻反映了审美现代性中的矛盾命题。