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題名 | The Gothic Hallucination, Symbolization, and the Real: A Lacanian Reading of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey=哥德式幻想、符號系統與真實體驗:以拉岡理論閱讀珍‧奧斯汀之《諾桑覺寺》 |
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作者姓名(中文) | 曾瑞華; | 書刊名 | 大漢學報 |
卷期 | 25 2011.12[民100.12] |
頁次 | 頁173-194 |
分類號 | 873.57 |
關鍵詞 | 哥德文體; 女性哥德傳奇; 想像; 象徵; 真實; 啟蒙主義; 女性唐吉軻德; Gothic genre; Female Gothic romance; The imaginary; The symbolic; The real; Enlightenment; Female Quixote; |
語文 | 英文(English) |
中文摘要 | 《諾桑覺寺》是珍‧奧斯汀在其眾多作品中唯一以哥德文體書寫(或戲擬)而成的小說。由於書中充滿作者對哥德文體批評與肯定並陳的矛盾態度,因此奧斯汀對此文體的真正態度一直是各家評論爭論不休的議題。本文旨在運用拉岡對想像、象徵與真實三種精神活動之闡述探討奧斯汀對哥德文體之真正態度。文中除論及故事主人翁(凱瑟琳)閱讀哥德小說之奇妙經驗─凱瑟琳因過度沉迷哥德式小說而誤將現實生活中之蒂爾尼將軍(即其未來夫婿亨利‧蒂爾尼之父)想像為殘暴弒妻的邪惡之夫,其後雖因亨利之開導,學會將現實與想像分開,並以理性建構之抽象符號系統取代由直覺產生的非理性幻想,最後仍發現蒂爾尼將軍果然即是先前所直覺的粗暴之徒,亦即,凱瑟琳的現實人生其實就如她在哥德小說中所閱讀到的文字世界一樣,必須在邪惡勢力的威脅下追求幸福─並藉拉岡之理論論證奧斯汀對哥德文體之肯定:以理性建構的抽象思維無法提供主體對事物的真實體驗,欲體驗真實,主體必先體驗入情神往,而在許多方面,哥德小說的確是提供人移情神往的最佳文體。 |
英文摘要 | It has long been a controversial issue for the critics of Northanger Abbey to argue about Jane Austen's valuation of the Gothic genre as revealed in the novel. For those who read Northanger Abbey as an explicit anti-gothic declaration, one of the key evidences to be discussed in the text is Henry's sonorous instruction of enlightenment addressed to Catherine when he detects her undue simulation of the Abbey as another Udolpho and his father General Tilney as another Montoni, both the female Gothic writer Ann Radcliffe's fictitious creation. Yet, for other critics who posit the author's vindication of the Gothic genre in the novel, Henry's enlightenment is studied very much against the grain. Unable to intuit the potential evilness of the General as Catherine is, Henry is studied as a victim of enlightenment who sees only the bright side of knowledge and reason, whereas Catherine's power of fancy acquired from her Gothic reading makes it possible for her to access the real villainies of the General. To integrate both the two trends of criticism, this paper aims to enter into a dialectic discussion between the faculty of reason and that of imagination. By illustrating Catherine's growth in her rebalance of the two faculties in the novel, which makes her see what Henry misses in life, this paper argues that for Austen Gothic novels are never worthless. |
本系統之摘要資訊系依該期刊論文摘要之資訊為主。