Modernism, class and colonialism in Robert Noonan's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Modernism, class and colonialism in Robert Noonan's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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罗伯特·努南的《衣衫褴褛的慈善家》中的现代主义、阶级和殖民主义
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10.1080/09670882.2018.1477480
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2018
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0.7
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Ó Donghaile D
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Ó Donghaile D
本文探讨了罗伯特·努南1914年的小说《衣衫褴褛的慈善家》，这是一部爱尔兰现代主义小说。阅读其支离破碎的叙述，作为一个反映作者的下层地位，作为一个爱尔兰共和党和社会主义者，它解释努南的工作作为反殖民主义和阶级斗争的产物，他参与。它对资本主义和帝国主义霸权的批评，以及苦难、不公正和暴力是正常、自然或不可避免的现象的断言，反映了作者的沮丧、愤怒和绝望。通过这种方式，小说反驳了维多利亚时代现实主义文本稳定性中所反映出的贵族-帝国的动态，并使其偏离了中心。《破烂裤子的慈善家》是一部不安的文本，它既破裂又不确定自己的美学地位，并通过其不断变化的情节传达了工人阶级永远处于“绝望边缘”的不稳定生存状态。
This essay explores Robert Noonan’s 1914 novel,The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, as a work of Irish modernist fiction. Reading its fragmented narrative as a reflection of the author’s subaltern position as an Irish republican and socialist, it interprets Noonan’s work as the product of the anticolonial and class struggles in which he was involved. Its critique of capitalist and imperial hegemony and the assertions that suffering, injustice and violence are normal, natural or inevitable phenomena reflects the author’s frustration, anger and desperation. In this way the novel counters and decentres the bourgeois-imperial dynamic that was reflected in the textual stability of Victorian realism.The Ragged Trousered Philanthropistsis an uneasy text that is at once ruptured and uncertain of its own aesthetic status and conveys, through its shifting, episodic plot, the precariousness of a working-class existence permanently poised “on the brink of destitution.”