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題 名 | Between Temporal and Spatial Transformations:An Ancient Capital City at the End of Time |
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作 者 | Chou,Ying-hsiung; | 書刊名 | Tamkang Review |
卷 期 | 31:2 民89.冬 |
頁 次 | 頁51-70 |
分類號 | 823.68 |
關鍵詞 | 朱天心; 古都; 小說; Zhu Tian-xin; Gudu; Representation; Frank Kermode; Industrialization; Tradition; Modernity; Memory; Urbanization; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | Narrative unity is often taken for granted. Presumably it is derived from man's desire to listen to a good and complete story. It is also to be expected of any respectable fiction writer. A novel, for instance, qualifies as such only insofar as it comes equipped with chronological and causal dimensions. It has also been argued at a theological and aesthetic level that narrative unity is related to man's anxiety over the impending apocalypse, since both share in common “the sense of an ending.” For this reason, narrative unity has all along been regarded as essential in the realist tradition of the West. However, in an age of late capitalism, massive urbanization, and social fragmentation, this realist mode of representation seems to be undergoing a dramatic change. In place of temporal continuity, some sort of spatial transformation seems to be at work. This spatial trend seems to be intensifying as we begin a new millennium. Even the sense of purpose itself (in terms of chronological and causal relations, for example) seems suspect now. A different mode of investigation, therefore, is in order if we are to explore the overdetermined contemporary scene. Zhu Tian-xin's 朱天心 Gudu 古都 (1997) is a good example of such a mode as it foregrounds man's dilemma between tradition and modernity. At the turn of the millennium, the writer is forced to give up the conventional realist mode of representation in favor of spatial transformation. The strategy is necessary as the writer searches for an identity for her native city as well as for herself. Although essential as a means of self-understanding, the strategy also reflects the writer's will to order, to the point of subjecting the world to her own wish for a utopian state. |
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