《院长》中的学院政治与公共性书写

A study of academic politics and publicity in The Masters

作为战后英国学院派小说的奠基者,C.P.斯诺开启了对教师为主体的学院生活的记录和再现。他关注学院作为共同体的内在运行机制,揭示其中的各种权力关系,探索个体维护学院共同体公共性的责任,表达自己作为学院知识分子的公共精神。本文以斯诺的学院派小说代表作《院长》为研究对象,从文化政治的视角出发,揭示学院生活中被私人化了的公共权力、撕裂的内部关系以及失序的个体心灵,探讨学院政治与学院共同体公共性危机之间的关系,同时揭示作家对学院生活摆脱个人主义的羁绊、重建文明而有尊严的学院共同体的隐性表达。

As the founder of the post-war academic novel in Britain, C. P. Snow establishes the literary tradition of truthfully representing the life of the academia. He is concerned about the inner workings of the academic life, revealing the power relations in it and calling on keeping to the responsibility for the publicity of the academic community. This article takes Snow’s representative workThe Mastersas the object of study, trying to analyze the personalization of public power, the rupture of human relations and the disorder of the inner life in the academic circle, with the exploration of the relationship between academic politics and the crisis of publicity in the academic community. It also tries to represent Snow’s hope for the disengagement of academia from individualism and the reconstruction of a civilized and respectful community.