Lefebvre’s triadic process consists of the relationship between“spatial practice”,“representations of space”,and“representational spaces”.This spatial triad as a unity describes how space is produced within soc...Lefebvre’s triadic process consists of the relationship between“spatial practice”,“representations of space”,and“representational spaces”.This spatial triad as a unity describes how space is produced within society.Interestingly,Lefebvre’s space is closely related to the process of Jewish youth’s growing up when we put Lefebvre’s triad into American-Jewish Bildungsroman,in which spatial practice is related to the repetitive routines of everyday places and private life,and it is,in a large sense,an abstract process linking to the complicated relationships of ethnicity,gender,class,etc.,while representations of space are the“real”lived space and representational spaces are a metaphorical and symbolic one,which is similar to Foucault’s space of power,under the function of which the Jewish protagonist goes gradually and paradoxically into the subject.展开更多
British novelist Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall can be interpreted as a female Bildungsroman. This essay attempts to explore how the protagonist's identity problem is finally resolved through the analysis of...British novelist Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall can be interpreted as a female Bildungsroman. This essay attempts to explore how the protagonist's identity problem is finally resolved through the analysis of the characteristics and elements of female Bildungsroman as reflected in TheWaterfall.展开更多
Based on detailed textual analysis, the article argues that Wang Anyi brings the abstract idealism of the second-generation of PRC into a productive collision with its concrete Other--from its parents＇ generation to ...Based on detailed textual analysis, the article argues that Wang Anyi brings the abstract idealism of the second-generation of PRC into a productive collision with its concrete Other--from its parents＇ generation to the resilient national bourgeoisie to quotidian sensuousness embodied by the world of its female counterpart. In so doing, as the author seeks to show, the novel presents a compelling narrative of the self-education, growth, and formation of the generation of the Cultural Revolution without reducing it to ideological stereotypes rampant in China after 1976. While delving into the structure and style of fiction, the article takes as its focus the confrontation between abstraction and concreteness; Self and Other; superstructure and infrastructure, or social consciousness and social existence, at a philosophical level in order to construct a phenomenology of the experience of post-revolutionary Subjectivity.展开更多
基金funded by Project:“Research on E.L.Doctorow’s Political Novels”(18YBA340)sponsored by Hunan Social Science Fund of China.
文摘Lefebvre’s triadic process consists of the relationship between“spatial practice”,“representations of space”,and“representational spaces”.This spatial triad as a unity describes how space is produced within society.Interestingly,Lefebvre’s space is closely related to the process of Jewish youth’s growing up when we put Lefebvre’s triad into American-Jewish Bildungsroman,in which spatial practice is related to the repetitive routines of everyday places and private life,and it is,in a large sense,an abstract process linking to the complicated relationships of ethnicity,gender,class,etc.,while representations of space are the“real”lived space and representational spaces are a metaphorical and symbolic one,which is similar to Foucault’s space of power,under the function of which the Jewish protagonist goes gradually and paradoxically into the subject.
文摘British novelist Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall can be interpreted as a female Bildungsroman. This essay attempts to explore how the protagonist's identity problem is finally resolved through the analysis of the characteristics and elements of female Bildungsroman as reflected in TheWaterfall.
文摘Based on detailed textual analysis, the article argues that Wang Anyi brings the abstract idealism of the second-generation of PRC into a productive collision with its concrete Other--from its parents＇ generation to the resilient national bourgeoisie to quotidian sensuousness embodied by the world of its female counterpart. In so doing, as the author seeks to show, the novel presents a compelling narrative of the self-education, growth, and formation of the generation of the Cultural Revolution without reducing it to ideological stereotypes rampant in China after 1976. While delving into the structure and style of fiction, the article takes as its focus the confrontation between abstraction and concreteness; Self and Other; superstructure and infrastructure, or social consciousness and social existence, at a philosophical level in order to construct a phenomenology of the experience of post-revolutionary Subjectivity.
