摘要
《开始的诸多方式》中主人公大卫·卡特具有强烈的恋物倾向。他自幼便热衷于收集遗弃之物,成年后成为一名博物馆管理员。在实物的“施魅”下,其日常生活中的情绪和行动无不受到实物的牵引。该小说呈现了作者麦格雷戈对物的哲学思考,他强调物的主体性,认为物具有活力,在与人的内在互动中,物能对人发挥施事功能。对物的主体性的肯定,解构了主体与客体、心智与物质之间的二元对立,传达了作者去人类中心主义的思想倾向,就对物的认识而言,麦格雷戈是一位生态后现代主义者。
Since childhood,the protagonist David in Jon McGregor’s So Many Ways to Begin has been collecting discarded objects,and this shapes his professional choice to become amuseum curator.With his fetish for objects,David is completely under their control;objects shape his feelings and actions.This novel offers the clearest elucidation of McGregor’s philosophy of things.He stresses the subjectivity and vitality of things:how things,as actants,can make human beings act through the intra-action between human and nonhuman.McGregor’s theory of non-anthropocentrism aims to disrupt the binary opposition of object and subject,mind and matter.In terms of his understanding of the thing,McGregor is an eco-posthumanist.
作者
吴国杰
Wu Guojie(Chongqing Normal University,Chongqing 401331,China)
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2020年第3期44-51,共8页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
基金
国家社科基金青年项目“爱尔兰移民小说研究”(13CWW027)成果。
