Musical Coding and Political Decoding in the Gaze of Empires: The Use of Music and National Writing in James Joyce's Dubliners
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摘要: 19世纪末期,在叶芝(W.B.Yeats)等知识分子的主导下,爱尔兰文艺复兴运动(Irish Literary Renaissance)方兴未艾。然而,乔伊斯敏锐地嗅到了弥漫于“文艺复兴运动”中的民族主义情绪。文学与政治的草率结盟极易形成把控意识形态的一元论绝对话语,藉此呈现的文艺作品也难免落入泥古虚幻的空洞俗套。作为一名流散欧陆的知识分子,乔伊斯却在文学创作的文化心理结构上恒久地归属于母国爱尔兰。在其早年创作的小说集《都柏林人》中,乔伊斯借助于文学文本包蕴音乐元素的通感艺术形式,喻指了那个时代爱尔兰动荡的政治文化生态,承载着青年乔伊斯对于民族复兴进路的追问与反思。概言之,乔伊斯在小说集《都柏林人》中对于音乐元素的多维度运用,彰显了其文学与音乐深度交互的创作实践与民族书写原则。以音乐为能指符号归纳特定时期的政治所指,乔伊斯把“双重殖民”的社会现状整合于都柏林人耳熟能详的音乐意象之中,并以此为镜,呈现都柏林大众民族精神麻痹的诸种模态,进而达到唤醒“瘫痪”的爱尔兰国民,打开耦合于爱尔兰民众深层心理结构中的国族意识之目的。Abstract: In the late 19th century, the Irish Literary Renaissance, led by intellectuals such as W. B. Yeats, was on the rise. James Joyce, however, was keenly aware of the nationalistic sentiment that permeated the Renaissance.He believed that the sloppy alliance between literature and politics is easily shaped by the absolute monistic discourse of dominating ideology, and the literary works presented by it will inevitably fall into empty cliches.As a diaspora intellectual in Europe, Joyce dedicated the entirety of his mind for literary creation to his fatherland Hreland. In his early story collection Dubliners, Joyce focuseson hisnational writing by employing abundant musical elements, which both implies the political ecology of that era and presents young Joyce's thoughts on national rejuvenation. In their totality, the multi-dimensional usages of music in Dubliners mark Joyce's deep integration of literature and music. Using music as a signifier to summarize the signified politics of the era, Joyce coalesces the "dualcolonialism" of Irish society into familiar music images, which in turn awaken the paralyzed Irish nationals. This article studies the transcoding resemblance between music coding and political decoding, and explores how Joyce uses these "meaningful" musical symbols to signify politics and social life against a diachronic and synchronic background.
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Key words:
- James Joyce /
- Dubliners /
- musical elements /
- paralysis /
- national writing
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