On Longing
出版时间
1992-12-19
ISBN
9780822313663
评分
★★★★★
书籍介绍
Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally published in 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press), and now available in paperback for the first time, this highly original book draws on insights from semiotics and from psychoanalytic, feminist, and marxist criticism. Addressing the relations of language to experience, the body to scale, and narratives to objects, Susan Stewart looks at the "miniature" as a metaphor for interiority and at the "gigantic" as an exaggeration of aspects of the exterior. In the final part of her essay Stewart examines the ways in which the "souvenir" and the "collection" are objects mediating experience in time and space.
AI导读
核心看点
- 剖析微型与巨型作为内外隐喻的文化意义
- 解读纪念品与收藏品背后的欲望与怀旧机制
- 融合符号学与诗性直觉，拆解物的意识形态
适合谁读
- 对物质文化、记忆研究及人类学感兴趣的读者
- 喜欢诗意理论写作，寻求跨学科视角的学者
- 对怀旧、旅游纪念品及日常物叙事有好奇的人
读前提醒
- 作者兼具诗人与学者身份，文风诗意且理论密集
- 部分章节论述较为繁复，建议耐心细读以消化概念
- 可结合具体生活经验，体会书中关于物的细腻分析
读者共识
- 被誉为物质文化研究的经典，兼具学术深度与可读性
- 对纪念品与收藏品的区分分析精准，切中肯綮
- 写作如流水般溶解矛盾，语言优美且富有生成力
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "The printed text is cinematic before the invention of cinema. The adjustable speed of narration, the manipulability of the visual, turns the reader into a spectator enveloped by, yet clearly separated from, the time and space of the text…Butor goes on to say that in reading dialogue and in reading l"
- "In a suggestive article on the relation between the development of film and the development of late capitalism, Stanley Aronowitz has stated that "film is the synchronous art form of late capitalism. The film-machine is the enemy of time no less than mass production; it reproduces desire as its prod"
- "Nostalgia is a sadness without an object, a sadness which creates a longing that of necessity is inauthentic because it does not take part in lived experience. Rather, it remains behind and before that experience. Nostalgia, like any form of narrative, is always ideological: the past it seeks has ne"
- "the space of the collection is a complex interplay of exposure and hiding, organization and the chaos of infinity. The collection relies upon the box, the cabinet, the cupboard, the seriality of shelves. It is determined by these boundaries, just as the self is invited to expand within the confines "
- "The writing of miniaturization does not want to call attention to itself or to its author; rather, it continually refers to the physical world. It resists the interiority of reflexive language in order to interiorize an outside; it is the closest thing we have to a three-dimensional language, for it"
- "This is the daydream of the microscope: the daydream of life inside life, of significance multiplied infinitely within significance. Thus the state of arrested life that we see in the tableau and in the fixity and exteriority of writing and print always bears the hesitation of a beginning"
- "Problems of the inanimate and the animate here bring us to a consideration of the toy. The toy is the physical embodiment of the /fiction: it is a device for fantasy, a point of beginning for narrative. The toy opens an interior world, lending itself to fantasy and privacy in a way that the abstract"
- "Miniature golf, the fantasy land, the children's zoos, and storybook countries realize the exotic and the fantastic on a miniaturized scale. The image that is produced not only bears the tangible qualities of material reality but also serves as a representation, an image, of a reality which does not"
作者简介
Susan Stewart was born in 1952. She received a B.A. in English and anthropology from Dickinson College, an M.A. in poetics from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania.
She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Columbarium (University of Chicago Press, 2003) which received the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Forest (1995), which received the Literary Award of the Philadelphia Atheneum; The Hive (1987); and Yellow Stars and Ice (1981).
用户评论
A cultural study of objectified desire and fantasy: the chapters on miniature and objects of desire are so poetically and clearly constructed. There are still some statements that can be expanded especially when it comes to theoretical framing but it’s a nicely written essay as most of other works by Stewart are.
》《 法国风格的理论。
朋友 这本书不读 你是人吗 不是， 什么叫诗人，什么叫诗人学者，什么叫诗人写论文，读过本书，你将领悟
已炸。Stewart纯熟柔和符号学，精神分析和马克思理论，在collection之论述上细致入微，她的理论比平常理论家更进一两步，而就是向深处探的这一两步弥合了看似观点散乱的不足。
很有趣的一个观点：符号所承载的意义与其物质条件（材料，尺度）密切相关。一般来讲，人们会只关注符号的抽象层面，然而同样一个物件在尺度和材料变化的时候会产生意义上的巨大改变。Scaled models in general reflect human desire of fantasy and fictiveness as in "play". The material and abstract aspects of models are corelated in constructing meaning, which also reflects the ever-presence of body in the perception of world.
读的时候不断地意识到这本书会有多难翻，和每个句子的精妙本身比起来，大段引用法语和拉丁语已经算是小事情。但这种难度让我非常兴奋，因为它势必会给我带来多方面的巨大进步，那种即将到来的殚精竭虑使我在阅读的过程中浑身颤抖。啊，我要加油！！
Clusters around two polars of miniature & gigantic. 能不能回到图像的问题。
写得真好啊
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