发表于2024-11-27
The Ideas in Things 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 维多利亚 Non-fiction
"The Ideas in Things" explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing an innovative approach to analyzing nineteenth-century fiction, Elaine Freedgood reconnects the things readers unwittingly ignore to the stories they tell. Building her case around objects from three well-known Victorian novels - Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, and Charles Dickens' Great Expectations - Freedgood argues that these things are connected to histories that the novels barely acknowledge, generating darker meanings outside the novels' symbolic systems. A valuable contribution to the field of object studies, "The Ideas in Things" pushes readers' thinking about things beyond established concepts of commodity and fetish.
读前言第二遍之后,决定改五星。
评分吭哧吭哧看完第一遍。先给Freedgood大大献上我的膝盖,然后跪着去刷第二遍辣!
评分读前言第二遍之后,决定改五星。
评分有些本末倒置,让维多利亚小说成了19世纪英国物质文化史的注脚。同样也有些循环论证,作者看了一些维多利亚物质文化史的书,然后用里面提及的物与小说里的物相匹配,去论证小说里同样的物体现了其时怎样的物质文化。如果要了解那段时期的物质文化概况,直接去读维多利亚物质文化史的书就好了呀,还读这些维多利亚小说干啥呢?所以作者论证的这些小说“证史”的特异性在哪里呢?此外,Freegood提倡说,要恢复虚构文本中事物的物质属性,就要尽力避免象征的诱惑,避免隐喻式的解读;但是,就像Bill Brown说的,我们思考蕴含于事物中的观念时,真的可以避免不被我们关于事物的观念(也即我们对事物的隐喻性象征性解读)所影响吗?“Probably not.”
评分吭哧吭哧看完第一遍。先给Freedgood大大献上我的膝盖,然后跪着去刷第二遍辣!
The Ideas in Things 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书