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The purpose of this article is to study the narrative mechanisms by which Mrs Alex Tweedie's late‐nineteenth‐century travelogueThrough Finland in Cartsbecomes an act of effective Eurocentric appropriation. This is achieved by her merging of two narrative strategies. My discussion of her book is organized in two parts to demonstrate this. In the first part I show how Tweedie, as if from the outside, as a reporter, or a writer of a tourist's guide book, introduces Finland to her metropolitan readership by “writing” (the story of) an aspiring nation‐state begging for entrance into the western hemisphere. In the second part I deal with her modes of self‐projection which dramatize and reduplicate age‐worn imperial rhetorics. Thus Tweedie projects herself as a sentimental traveller who uses the travellee (the person whom she encounters, sees) as a site for cooption or appropriation. Especially in a few scenes involving sauna‐bathing and her own body this uneven relationship is prominent. The Finnish Other (body) is de‐orientalized, cleansed, brought closer to her own (=the centre), but is not allowed to come too close. The hierarchy is maintained. Her endeavour could be called an ‘an

ISSN:0105-7510    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0730.1995.tb00081.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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This stylistic analysis focuses on one aspect of symbolism inMadame Bovaryand was prompted by the apparent overdetermination of two strategically‐positioned references to white powder, one sweet, one bitter, which play a critical part in Flaubert's determinist aesthetics. The suggestive reference tosucreatla Vaubyessardis one of the props serving to fuel Emma's dreams of romance, whilst its counterpart, the reference to arsenic, marks the end of all illusions as reality supersedes dream. A variety of references to sugars literal and metaphorical underpin this central textual truth, whilst references to poison, literal and metaphorical, at once underscore Emma's delusional apprehension of reality and provide a coherent commentary on the inexorable shift from illusion to real as dreams are progressively deflated. The sweet sugar of Emma's worldview is at variance with the bitter arsenic that the text establishes as a corrective to that romanticized view. In this way, the motif of sweetness contributes to the structural and thematic coherence ofMadame Bovar

ISSN:0105-7510    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0730.1995.tb00082.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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The article's main thrust is to demonstrate how Flaubert'sMadame Bovaryis an outstanding illustration of how anthropological issues can readily lend themselves to artistic use. Setting out from a brief discussion of proxemics according to the anthropologist Edward T. Hall, the paper explores Emma's proxemic behaviour toward her environment and those she comes in contact with, in order to demonstrate that this behaviour in a form of psychological terror, leads the protagonist to her death.

ISSN:0105-7510    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0730.1995.tb00083.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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G. Apollinaires ‘Calligramme’gehören zu den Grundtexten der literarischen Moderne. In ihnen manifestiert sich die Zuwendung zum konkreten ‘Material’der Dichtung, den einzelnen Buchstaben und Zeichen. Stéphane Mallarmé hat als erster dieser Richtung den Weg gewiesen, die Futuristen haben ihn mit ihren Manifesten unter der Parole der ‘Worte in Freiheit’popularisiert. Der Dichter Apollinaire hat sich selbst als eine Art Bindeglied verstanden und in den Gedichten zwischen Zeichnung und Wortkunst seinem literarischen Avantgardismus Ausdruck verliehen. Damit kommt er in die Nähe der Kubisten um G. Braque und P. Picasso, deren Werke um 1910 ebenfalls die Grenzlinie zwischen Wort und Malerei überschreiten. Bei Apollinaires ≫La Colombe poignardée et le jet d'eau≪ ist in exemplarischer Weise zu sehen, wie in der je unterschiedlichen dichterischen und malerischen ‘Organisation’des Texts das Kunstwerk eine neu

ISSN:0105-7510    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0730.1995.tb00084.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Book Review in this Article.Djelal Kadir:The other Writing.

ISSN:0105-7510    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0730.1995.tb00085.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY