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'Your change is still behind': Futurity in early modern literature.

机译：“您的改变还在后面”：早期现代文学中的未来主义。

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A study of Renaissance literature's engagement with temporality, my project is a critical evaluation of the concept of early modern futurity, of which I propose three categories: "Material futurity"; "Biological futurity"; and "Political futurity." In the moments that I identify in texts composed during the Tudor and early Stuart reigns in England, I demonstrate that the future---as an idea---structures individuals' actions and ruptures social formations. Futurity, which I define as a play of multiple desires that exist simultaneously within our present beings, is a volatile agent of imagination in early modern literature. Futurity collides with the cultural sites of memory and pulls characters in different directions, destabilizing the organized spaces defined by their bodies, kingdoms, and locations. While the characters in these texts may return to regulated forms of thought and being, it is in their moments of flux, I argue, that they present the most complex engagement with futurity.;In A Midsummer Night's Dream, for example, Helena initiates a material futurity when she chases down the scornful Demetrius in the woods outside Athens and promises him that she will write a "story" that "shall" change the future of female lovers (2.1.230). It is precisely because Helena resists material conditions---the silence and immobility imposed upon Athenian women, who "cannot" act and "fight for love as men may do"---that she strives to transform the future of female subjectivity and citizenship (2.1.241). The Changeling's Beatrice-Joanna, on the other hand, appropriates a futurity that is biological, when she plans carefully to avoid the virginity and pregnancy tests designed for her by her new husband Alsemero. Having lost to De Flores her virginity, that "loved and loathed" passage to the site for the generation of patriarchal futures (1.1.125), Beatrice-Joanna sabotages her own marriage bed as well as others' bodies, thereby avoiding her fundamental sexual responsibility to patriarchs---her husband and her father---of legitimate biological propagation. In my third example, Paulina in The Winter's Tale relies on political futurity to topple Leontes' absolutist monarchy. As she orders the king to "[c]are not for issue" but follow the example of the "Great Alexander," who died and left his kingdom to no particular heir (5.1.46--47), Paulina instigates in Sicilia such a politics of unpredictability as will culminate in the succession of a new kind of political leadership.;Through these and other examples, I establish the various means by which characters in Renaissance literature operate within one or more categories of futurity, and I argue that the future in these works is a persistent if problematic source of inspiration and agency. Futurity, that condition of our present experience in which we want, need, wish, hope, and plan for diverse objects and states to be realized in our future, initiates in characters such as Helena, Beatrice-Joanna, and Paulina a contradictory desire that often leads to their perverting (making monstrous) the social apparatuses of their past and present. Through such manipulations, characters in early modern literature not only imagine the future as a controllable component of time, but also amend the seemingly concrete elements of temporality---their historical past and present---in order to propel change.
机译：通过研究文艺复兴时期文学对时间性的参与，我的项目是对早期现代未来性概念的批判性评估，其中我提出了三类：“材料未来性”； “生物未来”；和“政治上的未来性”。在我在都铎王朝和斯图尔特早期统治英国期间撰写的文本中指出的那一刻，我证明了未来（作为一种观念）构成了个人的行为并破坏了社会形态。我将未来性定义为在我们现有生命中同时存在的多种欲望的游戏，它是早期现代文学中想象力的不稳定动因。未来与记忆的文化场所相撞，将角色朝不同的方向拉动，从而破坏了由其身体，王国和位置所定义的有组织空间。我认为，尽管这些文本中的人物可能会恢复为规则的思想和存在，但正是在他们不断变化的时刻，他们呈现出最复杂的与未来感的交往。例如，在《仲夏夜之梦》中，海伦娜发起了一场当她在雅典郊外的树林中追随轻蔑的德米特里（Demetrius）并向他保证，她将写下“将”改变女性恋人未来的“故事”时，物质上的未来感（2.1.230）。正是因为海伦娜抵制物质条件-赋予雅典女性的沉默和不动，她们“不能”行动，“像男人一样为爱而战”-她努力改变女性主观性和公民身份的未来（2.1.241）。另一方面，当Changeling的Beatrice-Joanna精心计划避免她的新丈夫Alsemero为她设计的童贞和怀孕测试时，她认为这种未来是生物学的。比阿特丽斯·乔安娜（Departerice-Joanna）对德弗洛雷斯（De Flores）失去了童贞，失去了“热爱和厌恶”的世代父权制期货的传承权（1.1.125），破坏了自己的婚床以及他人的身体，从而避免了她的基本性行为对族长-她的丈夫和父亲-的合法生物繁殖的责任。在我的第三个例子中，《冬天的故事》中的宝琳娜依靠政治上的前途推翻了列昂特的专制君主制。宝琳娜（Paulina）在命令国王“不发”但效仿“伟大的亚历山大”（Alexander）的榜样后，她死了，王国没有特别的继承人（5.1.46--47），通过这些和其他示例，我确定了文艺复兴时期文学中人物在一种或多种未来性类别中的各种运作方式，并且我认为这些作品的未来是持续存在的灵感和代理问题。未来是我们当前经验的一种条件，在这种条件下，我们希望，需要，希望，希望和计划，以实现我们未来的各种对象和状态，这种萌芽源自海伦娜（Helena），比阿特丽斯·乔安娜（Beatrice-Joanna）和宝琳娜（Paulina）等角色的矛盾欲望，即通常会导致他们对过去和现在的社会机器进行扭曲（变得可怕）。通过这种操纵，早期现代文学中的人物不仅将未来视为时间的可控组成部分，而且还修改了时间性看似具体的元素（它们的历史过去和现在）以推动变化。

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    Pillai, Tripthi.;

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    Loyola University Chicago.;

  • 授予单位 Loyola University Chicago.;
  • 学科 Literature English.;Literature Modern.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2010
  • 页码 273 p.
  • 总页数 273
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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