Individual temporalities and reading communities: Structures of temporality and anglophone long novels from the 1970s to the present.

个体时间性和阅读群体：时间性结构和 20 世纪 70 年代至今的英语长篇小说。

• 批准号: 319408161
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Julika Griem
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/319408161?language=en
• 关键词: Individual; temporalities; reading; communities; Structures

Complex long novels have consolidated as a genre in modernism by offering a cultural vantage point on time and world in their entirety. In the wake of authors like Proust, Joyce and Mann, writers like Pynchon and Wallace created voluminous, intertextually as well as interdiscursively dense novels. It is hardly surprising that many of these works were interpreted as epochal signatures and diagnoses of the present; what is surprising is the fact that they have generated semiprofessional and nonacademic reading communities, despite the massive difficulties involved in reading these long novels. The reading communities around long novels are not simply interpretive communities but cultivate performative and collective, temporally reflexive forms of reading: Examples are the public nonstop readings of Pynchons Gravitys Rainbow popular in the 1980s, and the three-monthly reading projects around Doris Lessings The Golden Notebook (2008-09) and David Foster Wallaces Infinite Jest (Infinite Summer, 2009) (both documented online). The project argues that these reading projects respond chiefly to the excessive demands long novels make on the time budget and the cognitive capacities of readers: They organize reading time, render it intersubjectively observable and thus open to modification. Reading time is structured with reference to the vocabulary, the aesthetic structures, and the problematic of temporality as expressed in long novels (from scientific to philosophical concepts of time to social modes of configuring time and history). In order to elaborate this hypothesis, a combination of different methodological approaches is required: a formal aesthetics of temporal structures in long novels, a discourse analytical investigation into its distinction in academic and non-academic contexts, and a literary sociology of interpretive and reading communities. This approach will highlight reading communities of long novels as exemplary sites of negotiation for transitions but also for discrepancies between the novels aesthetic time (Eigenzeit) and socially configured temporalities.

复杂的长篇小说在现代主义中作为一种体裁得到了巩固，因为它提供了一个关于时间和世界的整体的文化Vantage。在普鲁斯特、乔伊斯和曼恩之后，品钦和华莱士等作家创作了大量的、互文的、话语间的密集小说。毫不奇怪，这些作品中有许多被解读为时代的签名和对当下的诊断;令人惊讶的是，尽管阅读这些长篇小说有巨大的困难，但它们已经产生了半专业和非学术性的阅读群体。围绕长篇小说的阅读群体不仅仅是解释性的群体，而且还培养了表演性的、集体的、时间自反的阅读形式：例如，20世纪80年代流行的品钦的《引力彩虹》（Gravitys Rainbow）的公众不间断阅读，以及围绕多丽丝·莱辛斯（Doris Lessings）的《金色笔记本》（2008-09）和大卫福斯特·华莱士（David Foster Wallaces）的《无限玩笑》（Infinite Jest）的三个月一次的阅读项目（无限的夏天，2009年）（都记录在线）。该项目认为，这些阅读项目主要是对长篇小说对读者的时间预算和认知能力提出的过度要求作出反应：它们组织阅读时间，使其成为主体间可观察的，因此可以修改。阅读时间是参照词汇、美学结构和长篇小说中表达的时间性问题（从科学到哲学的时间概念到配置时间和历史的社会模式）来构建的。为了阐明这一假设，需要结合不同的方法论途径：长篇小说时间结构的形式美学，学术和非学术语境中的话语分析研究，以及解释和阅读社区的文学社会学。这种方法将突出的阅读社区的长篇小说作为示范网站的谈判过渡，但也为小说审美时间（Eigenzeit）和社会配置的时间之间的差异。