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‘a grate contribyushun for sience': Promise, threat, and the trauma of failure in Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon

机译：“对科学的伟大贡献”：丹尼尔·凯斯（Daniel Keyes）的《阿尔弗农之花》中的承诺，威胁和失败的创伤

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Using aspects of Arthur Frank's The wounded storyteller: Body, illness, and ethics as its basis, this article explores promise, threat and the trauma of failure in Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon, and in so doing, offers two alternative metaphors for the curative journey. The first is the plateau or medical model which begins in health, declines into illness and subsequently seeks to restore health to the ill individual. The second, parabolic metaphor begins in illness, rises out of that state but, eventually, regresses into ill-health again. This metaphor is akin to the inverted U-curve. As the novel's protagonist, Charlie Gordon is the first human to undergo experimental surgery to ameliorate his mental retardation by raising his intelligence to a level approximating normality at least. The experiment has been carried out successfully on laboratory mice, including one named Algernon. Charlie's progress through the experiment and its consequences is charted through a series of progress reports he writes. The language of the reports themselves epitomises his progress whilst providing an account of what transpires in Algernon's case. Promise, threat and the trauma of failure, characterised by the ascent, apogee and descent of the parabolic metaphor, provide a tripartite structure for the article.
机译：本文以亚瑟·弗兰克（Arthur Frank）的《受伤的讲故事的人：身体，疾病和伦理学》为基础，探究丹尼尔·凯斯（Daniel Keyes）的《阿尔弗农之花》中的承诺，威胁和失败的创伤，并以此为治疗之旅提供了两种替代性的隐喻。首先是高原或医学模式，从健康开始，逐渐恶化为疾病，然后寻求恢复患病个体的健康。第二种抛物线的隐喻始于疾病，从疾病状态中复活，但最终又陷入健康不良状态。这个比喻类似于倒U形曲线。作为小说的主人公，查理·戈登（Charlie Gordon）是第一个接受实验性手术的人，他通过将其智力提高到至少接近正常水平来改善其智力障碍。该实验已在包括一只名为Algernon在内的实验小鼠上成功进行。查理在实验中所取得的进展及其后果通过他撰写的一系列进度报告得到了图表。报告的语言本身就是他的进步的缩影，同时提供了关于阿尔及农案件中发生的一切的说明。以抛物线隐喻的上升，顶点和下降为特征的承诺，威胁和失败的创伤，为物品提供了三方结构。

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