舶来与本土化:澳大利亚殖民主义时期哥特式小说研究

在英美文学界,自从20世纪80年代以来,随着文化研究的发展,哥特式文学得到了热烈的讨论和研究。然而,由于白人历史不够悠久,澳大利亚长期以来被认为缺乏哥特式小说滋生的古堡文化,因而,哥特式小说在澳大利亚的新发展也未引起学术界的广泛重视。考察哥特式小说在澳大利亚殖民主义时期进行移植的可能性并且梳理哥特式小说在澳大利亚的本土化新发展,既可以拓宽澳大利亚文学研究的视野,也可以丰富哥特式文学研究。     

麦尔维尔创作中的通俗小说手法

随着后现代文艺思潮的盛行,严肃小说和通俗小说界限的消失,对麦尔维尔的研究也不再囿于传统的束缚.从麦尔维尔作品中采用的通俗小说手法入手,尤其是对其在具体作品中采用的讽刺冒险、哥特、城市暴露和言情等通俗小说模式逐一论述.麦尔维尔在创作中吸纳诸多的通俗手法,不只是为了取悦读者,更多的是为了实现自己的创作理念、形成自己独特的创作风格,从而在更深、更高的层次上实现与读者的心灵沟通.     

Jill Meagher CCTV

“Jill Meagher CCTV,” the security camera recording of Melbourne woman Jill Meagher's last minutes alive, registered more than 677,000 views on YouTube by early 2014. Little happens for most of its 232 seconds and, as would be expected with surveillance footage, there is no sound. In Australia, “Jill Meagher CCTV” forms part of a haunting iconography of a rape and murder victim that not only resonates with fictional narratives in other places, but also influences the way the Jill Meagher story, as a whole, is read. As Melissa Jane Hardie (2010) suggests of the “true crime” story (citing Bronski 2005, 29), the public reaction to high profile stories of violent crime “is often an emblematic cultural citation that represents a social problem or fixation.” This article considers “Jill Meagher CCTV” as such a cultural citation and goes further by highlighting its gothic tendencies. Highlighting the gothic aspects of “Jill Meagher CCTV” resonates with surrounding narratives of violence and gender justice, which have material consequences for women in the way that the most prevalent forms of violence against women continue to be downplayed in those narratives.     

试析《蝴蝶梦》中女性哥特式意象的运用

本文将对其中多次出现的石南花和大海的意象描写进行分析,探究其象征的意义及对塑造哥特式氛围所起的作用。     

美韵彰显的特异之"花"——论坡的哥特式小说

美国早期文学家爱伦.坡因其在小说、诗歌及创作文论上取得的成就而独树一帜,在文学批评界影响深远。坡在创作理念中对读者反应的重视更使其荒诞、恐怖的哥特小说具有了唯美主义的倾向;从接受美学的层面上来看,坡的哥特小说创作与英国早期哥特小说传统有一定的传承关系,并且他对哥特小说的创新发展在人类精神生态的层面上具有了广泛的社会与文艺功能。     

“Lizzie Do You Mind”: Gertrude Stein's Laws of Genre in Blood on the Dining-Room Floor

Against previous critics’ readings of Stein's Blood on the Dining-Room Floor as a failed attempt at the hard-boiled genre, this article argues for the many ways in which the novel re-writes the gothic/domestic detective story in a brilliant tour de force that frames all that is un-natural about heteronormative Victorian family life while offering a lesbian alternative. In Stein's subversive and serious play with the forms and conventions of popular fiction, her positive invocations of Lizzie Borden as textual witness, her wide-reaching references to lesbian relationships in other of her works, and, finally, her virtuosic use of silence, Stein writes a profound critique of the patriarchal family through a radical unmaking of a thoroughly domestic literary form.     

爱伦·坡哥特小说源流及其审美契合

美国著名作家爱伦·坡因其在诗歌、小说及文学评论上取得的非凡成就在世界文坛产生了深远影响,但其别开生面的创作模式并非空穴来风,其哥特小说与早期英国小说明显的承继关系就很好地说明了这一点,而其哥特小说在美国哥特小说的发展中起到了承前启后的作用,成为后人竞相效仿的模本,这主要是因其唯美主义的创作倾向及其超前的创作理念在心灵深处与读者的审美契合。     

Learning to listen: epistemic injustice and gothic film in dementia care education

Listening is a critical and under-theorized dimension to struggles against injustice and marginalization. In the wake of critiques from the disability movement of the pre-eminence of expert medical voices, educating professionals to listen to health service users has become particularly critical. The utterances of people with dementia have frequently been subject to, in Miranda Fricker’s terms, “testimonial injustice”: that is, seen as irrational, unreliable, and not to be believed. This article will examine the way in which the generic conventions of the gothic, more specifically what Mary Ann Doane has described as “the paranoid women’s film,” are used in a short film, Darkness in the Afternoon, widely screened in dementia care education in the UK and internationally. Drawing on interviews with dementia care trainers, analysis of training materials, and the film itself, this article proposes that gender and genre is used in this film as a strategy to reorient the listening and affective practices and testimonial sensibilities of health and aged care workers.     

《染血之室与其他故事》中的新娘哥特

安吉拉·卡特的短篇故事集《染血之室与其他故事》有着突出的女性哥特特质，而其中的新娘形象更是阴郁诡异。卡特对婚礼、婚纱、新娘形象进行了突破传统的书写，引入哥特元素，以夸张扭曲的手法书写新娘的境遇，目的是为了凸显女性在面临角色转换之际内心的巨大不安。她从女性视角出发，考虑女性的生理特点和心理特点，表达了对女性的关怀。     

Uncanny Gaming

As video games are increasingly designed for and marketed to women players, new gaming styles, themes, and mechanics have become popularized. This analysis considers how the games in the Ravenhearst trilogy both reinforce and complicate expectations of women gamers through repurposing the gothic romance. While the series does not market itself exclusively to women, the narrative specifically places the player in the subject position that implies a heterosexual female. By tapping into gothic genre expectations the games help to marginalize the player within the larger scope of video games. The games play with gothic storytelling style, yet push against many traditional conventions of the genre, illustrating how digital spaces have begun to rewrite traditional narrative conventions, but still maintain their gendered affectations. Through gaming, the gothic romance premise is reproduced, but ultimately shifts the player from the role of an onlooker to the subject position of victimized protagonist.