Unity through diversity and transformation in A la Recherche: A Study of Proust through the lens of Catherine Malabou

《追忆似水年华：通过凯瑟琳·马拉布的镜头对普鲁斯特的研究》中通过多样性和变革实现统一

• 批准号: 2733024
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2733024
• 关键词: Unity; through; diversity; transformation; la

My research project makes use of the writings of Catherine Malabou as a means for re-engaging with Proust's work. It is primarily an intervention within the context of Proustian studies. Recent critics such as Bower (2000) and Prendergast (2013) have argued that we can no longer read Proust's novel as attempting to advance a unified philosophical position. Meanwhile, Derridean-inspired critics, such as Rushworth (2016) or Elsner (2017) have shown in what ways Proust's work can speak to a diversity of other texts and persons. Although this celebration of Proust's diversity has indeed been warranted, recent critical endeavours now confront us with a pressing question: in what ways, after we have understood Proust's novel in its radical multiplicity, can we account for the unity that one still feels present in the Recherche? Malabou has, in her words, attempted to lay the theoretical groundwork for a 'metamorphosis of reconstructive reading[s]' (2010). She has employed her key concept of 'plasticity' in order to explain the 'originate unity' (2011, p. 175) of a work through the very diversity that deconstruction has uncovered. My application of her thought to Proust could answer the question outlined above, but it could also have wide ramifications for how critics think of the relation between 'unity' and 'diversity' in literary works in general. It would also engage with 'genetic' criticism and translation studies. In the research, I would intend to focus on Proust's early works, particularly Jean Santeuil (1896-1900) in order to understand the genesis of the form of the Recherche. I will also engage closely with Malabou and contemporary French philosophy to create or discover new, post-Derridean concepts of 'unity,' 'diversity', and 'form'.

我的研究项目利用凯瑟琳·马拉布的作品作为重新参与普鲁斯特作品的一种手段。它主要是普鲁斯特研究背景下的一种干预。最近的评论家，如鲍尔（2000）和普伦德加斯特（2013）认为，我们不能再阅读普鲁斯特的小说，试图推进一个统一的哲学立场。与此同时，受德里达启发的评论家，如拉什沃思（2016）或埃尔斯纳（2017）已经表明普鲁斯特的作品可以以何种方式与其他文本和人物对话。虽然这种对普鲁斯特多样性的庆祝确实是有道理的，但最近的批评努力现在使我们面临一个紧迫的问题：在我们理解了普鲁斯特小说的极端多样性之后，我们可以用什么方式来解释人们仍然感觉到存在于《研究》中的统一性？用她的话说，Malabou试图为“重构性阅读的变形”（2010）奠定理论基础。她运用了“可塑性”这一关键概念，通过解构主义所揭示的多样性来解释作品的“起源统一性”（2011年，第175页）。我将她的思想应用于普鲁斯特，可以回答上面概述的问题，但它也可能对评论家如何看待文学作品中的“统一性”和“多样性”之间的关系产生广泛的影响。它还将参与“遗传”批评和翻译研究。在研究中，我打算把重点放在普鲁斯特的早期作品，特别是让·桑特伊（1896-1900），以了解形式的起源研究。我也将与马拉布和当代法国哲学密切合作，创造或发现新的，后德里达的“统一”，“多样性”和“形式”的概念。