摘要
詹姆斯·英格利希是宾夕法尼亚大学约翰·威尔士百年英语教授、宾大普莱斯数字人文实验室的创始人兼主任,曾担任2016年度美国国家图书奖(小说类)评委会主席。他在专著《声誉经济》(哈佛大学出版社)中研究了文学和艺术奖项的历史、功能和影响,该书被《纽约杂志》评为2005年最佳学术书籍。英格利希提出的"声誉经济"理论在文学理论、文化社会学、文化经济学等领域中产生了广泛的影响。受《外国文学研究》委托,富布莱特访问学者芮小河在宾大访学期间(2019—2020),于2020年1月对英格利希教授进行了专访。访谈涉及文学与经济学的跨学科研究,布迪厄和詹明信之后文学经济学理论的发展,以及数字人文等方法的具体运用。英格利希教授认为,文学与经济学的跨学科研究应把重点放在文学世界中文学价值的生产体系上。基于经济学与社会学交叉点的文学研究应重视文学经济学的非货币维度;在文学价值产生于整个社会领域的背景下,这就涉及到文化声誉和社会资本。此外,他还分析了当今文学奖所面临的挑战。
James English is the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English and founding Faculty Director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.He served as Chair of Judges for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2016.His book,The Economy of Prestige(Harvard UP),a study of the history,functions,and effects of prizes in literature and arts,was named Best Academic Book of 2005 by New York Magazine.His economic theory of cultural prestige has exerted extensive influence in the fields of literary theory,cultural sociology and cultural economics.On behalf of Foreign Literature Studies,Rui Xiaohe,a Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania(2019—2020),interviewed English in January 2020 on issues of interdisciplinary studies of literature and economics,the development of theories of literary economics after Bourdieu and Jameson,and the application of Digital Humanities as well as other methods.English points out that interdisciplinary studies of literature and economics should center on the system of production of literary value.Intersecting with economics and sociology,literary studies should focus on non-monetary dimensions of literary economics,which involve cultural prestige and social capital in the context of the whole social field,where literary value is produced.In addition,he analyzes the challenges facing literary prizes today.
作者
芮小河
詹姆斯·英格利希
Rui Xiaohe;James English(Center for the Study of European and American Literature and the School of English Studies,Xi’an International Studies University;Price Lab for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania)
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2021年第5期18-32,共15页
Foreign Literature Studies
基金
“Literary Production of the Man Booker Prize”(17BWW086)sponsored by National Social Science Fund of China。
关键词
文学经济学
社会学
文化声誉
资本
数字人文
literary economics
sociology
cultural prestige
capital
Digital Humanities
