《还乡》中的倾听与共同体想象

外国文学研究 ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (4): 91-103.

《还乡》中的倾听与共同体想象

黄靖

出版日期:2020-08-25 发布日期:2021-02-25
作者简介:黄靖,武汉大学外国语言文学学院博士研究生,主要从事维多利亚时期小说与文化研究。
基金资助:
武汉大学自主科研项目（人文社会科学）“英语经典作家海外前沿动态研究”（413000035）; 武汉大学研究生出国（境）交流项目专项经费

The Listening and Imagination of Community in The Return of the Native

Huang Jing

Online:2020-08-25 Published:2021-02-25
About author:Huang Jing is a PhD candidate of English language and literature at the School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Wuhan University (Wuhan 430072, China). His research interests include Victorian fiction and culture. Email: huangjing2017@whu.edu.cn
Supported by:
The Independent Scientific Research Project of Wuhan University (Humanities and Social Sciences): “A Study of the Current Overseas Scholarship on English Classical Writers” （413000035）; Fund of International Exchanges and Cooperation for Graduate Students at Wuhan University

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： J.希利斯·米勒对《还乡》中共同体观念的哲学式阐发并未追溯其思想来源。结合哈代文学笔记、散文等资料分析《还乡》对于共同体成员听觉的描写,可以发现听觉是村民和主要人物想象共同体的方式之一,倾听引导人物重新想象彼此的情感联结。听觉中的共同体想象指涉法国大革命后思考共同体的两种思路：一种基于孔德实证主义关于“人性宗教”的设想,以游苔莎的气氛式倾听为典型,代表了视个人为‘抽象观念'的情感中介的共同体想象方式;另一种基于华兹华斯以倾听来思考同情、构想个体关系的书写传统,以乡民们同情克林的“人生故事”并由此倾听其布道为典型,代表了从真实、具体的人类情感出发的共同体想象方式。

关键词: 倾听, 《还乡》, 托马斯·哈代, 共同体

Abstract: J. Hillis Miller's philosophical elaboration on the concept of community in The Return of the Native hardly touches upon its ideological origin. An analysis of the depiction regarding listening among the members of the community in The Return of the Native, in connection with Thomas Hardy's literary notebooks, essays, and other documents, may reveal that listening functions as a sort of communal imagination for the villagers and the leading characters, and that it leads them to reimagine the emotional connection between each other. The auditory imagination of community might refer to two trains of thought on community after the French Revolution: one is the assumption based on the “Religion of Humanity” of the Comtean positivism and exemplified by Eustacia Vye's “atmospheric listening,” representing an imagination of community that perceives individuals as an emotional medium for abstractions; the other is the tradition based on Wordsworth's writing, namely, using listening as a way of reflecting on sympathy and the relation between individuals, and exemplified by the villagers' sympathy toward Clym's “life story” and their willingness to listen to his sermon, delineating an imagination of community based on real and concrete human emotions.

Key words: listening, The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy, community

黄靖. 《还乡》中的倾听与共同体想象[J]. 外国文学研究, 2020, 42(4): 91-103.

Huang Jing. The Listening and Imagination of Community in The Return of the Native[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2020, 42(4): 91-103.

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