Field, material, technique: On renewing postcolonial literary criticism

被引：8

作者：

Etherington, Ben ^{[1
]}

Zimbler, Jarad ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Western Sydney, Penrith, NSW 1797, Australia

[2] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England

来源：

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE | 2014年 / 49卷 / 03期

关键词：

Postcolonial literary criticism; literary technique; field; material; prosody; prose style; Pierre Bourdieu; Theodor Adorno; Louise Bennett; Mervyn Morris; J; M; Coetzee; Andre Brink;

D O I：

10.1177/0021989414538435

中图分类号：

I3/7 [各国文学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Concerned by the eclipse of concerted discussion of literary technique in the postcolonial field, this article outlines a critical practice which would restore questions of technique to the centre ground. Proceeding from the assumption that technique is the agent of art's thinking, it proposes that the literary craft practised in any given work or authorship needs to be thought through in its context of intelligibility: a conception which synthesizes insights of Pierre Bourdieu and Theodor Adorno; particularly their respective notions of field and material. Then, in two short studies, on the critical reception of Louise Bennett in the Caribbean and J. M. Coetzee in South Africa, these concepts are put into motion to illuminate the truth-content of field-defining developments of the literary material.

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页码：279 / 297

页数：19