Literary Neurodivergence Before Neurodiversity, or Neuroqueering French Literature from Stendhal to Wittig (1839-1984

什么是神经发散的诗学，它能给法语文学的关键作品带来什么新的、有启发性的东西？反过来，这些工作又能告诉我们什么关于神经分化的问题？这篇论文将借鉴神经多样性的前沿研究，重新思考我们如何看待标志性的文学文本及其现实世界的含义。它将首次提供神经发散和神经酷儿的经典作品的阅读，这些经典作品是在20世纪90年代神经多样性范式出现之前创作的19世纪和20世纪法语文学。这项研究不是“诊断”人物或作者，而是检查文本中神经发散和神经酷儿的“共鸣”。

What is a poetics of neurodivergence and what new and revealing light can it throw on key works of French-language literature? What can these works, in turn, tell us about neurodivergence? This thesis will draw on cutting-edge studies on neurodiversity to reimagine how we think about iconic literary texts and their real-world implications. It will offer, for the first time, neurodivergent and neuroqueer readings of canonical works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French-language literature created before the emergence of the neurodiversity paradigm in the 1990s. Rather than 'diagnosing' characters or authors, this study will examine neurodivergent and neuroqueer 'resonances' in texts.