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| Title: | 阿嘉莎克莉絲蒂:偵探故事與現代性
Agatha Christie: Detective Stories and Modernity |
| Authors: | 王銘鋒
Wang,Ming Fong |
| Contributors: | 陳超明
Chen,Chao Ming
王銘鋒
Wang,Ming Fong |
| Keywords: | 阿嘉莎克莉絲蒂
偵探故事
現代性
偵探
風險社會
時間與空間
Agatha Christie
detective story
modernity
detective
risk society
space and time |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Issue Date: | 2009-09-17 16:19:59 (UTC+8) |
| Abstract: | 阿嘉莎•克莉絲蒂一般被視為是一位傳統及經典的偵探小說作家。此類小說家通常會在小說裡強調「最後的真相」以及一個穩定社會秩序的回歸。然而，在此論文中，我將試著去證明克莉絲蒂的作品其實已超越了傳統偵探小說家的境界。由於她另類地在小說裡鋪陳「不確定真相」並且展現了一個介於工業社會以及後工業「風險社會」現代化變遷過程中的不穩定社會秩序，她甚至可以說是一位「反身性」的現代主義作家(“reflexive” modernist)呈現「高度現代性」(high modernity)的社會寫實。
本論文共分為六個章節；主要探討了克莉絲蒂對英國工業社會的「現代化進程」(modernizing process)的反身性及批判性的思維。在她的小說裡，所呈現的所謂「現代化進程」，包含了對理性真理的建構、規律化的時間及空間實踐以及國家之各法制機關的運作。在克莉絲蒂的小說裡，此過程與深受資本主義所影響下的工業化以及都市化的英國社會的關係是密不可分的。
因此，貝克(Ulrich Beck)對「風險社會」(risk society)以及「反身性現代化」(reflexive modernization)的見解，被用來廣泛地討論克莉絲蒂的作品。此外，其他談論「現代性」的幾位學者，例如哈維(David Harvey)、列菲弗爾(Henri Lefebvre)、瑟鐸(Michel de Certeau)以及班雅明(Walter Benjamin)的理論也被運用來解析她的文本。之所以涉及到這幾位學者的學說的原因，主要是他們都對工業社會下的理性化及紀律化的日常生活提出他們的質疑，也對現代科技及都市生活影響下的全新空間/時間的感知，發表了他們的見解。這些都有助於以文化研究的方法來暸解克莉絲蒂在其小說裡所呈現的社會情景。
總之，本論文的主要目標是要探討克莉絲蒂的小說文本與小說的社會背景兩者的關係。以「高度現代性」的理論架構，而非以傳統結構主義以及文類研究的方式，來審視她的小說。藉此，我期盼克莉絲蒂的小說能在英美現代文學作品的研究裡，能夠被重視並且能有重新的評價。
Agatha Christie is often regarded as a traditional and classic detective writer who accentuates an ultimate truth and promotes the restoration of a stable social order in her novels. Yet, my study attempts to evidence that, with her writings transcending the limits of traditional detective fiction, she acted as a “reflexive” modernist by alternatively dealing with an uncertainty truth and demonstrating a shaky social order in a transitive changing reality from an industrial society to a post-industrial risk society.
My dissertation is divided into six chapters, which focus on examining her reflexive and critical consciousness of a modernizing process, including the construction and deconstruction of a rational truth, disciplinary spatiotemporal practices, and legal institutions in her contemporary society of industrialization and urbanization under the impact of capitalism.
The study of Christie’s works will be based on Ulrich Beck’s notions of ‘risk society” and “reflexive modernization.” The theories of other modernist scholars, including those of David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Walter Benjamin, are also applied to witness Christie’s transformation from a conventional detective writer to a modernist one. These four theorists interrogate the rational and disciplinary control of everyday life in an industrial society and deal with brand new spatio-temporal perceptions rising from the development of advanced technologies and modern city life. Their theoretical perspectives are helpful to analyze Christie’s texts.
Christie’s writings exhibit a changing social reality, a change from an early modernity to a later development of high modernity. Other than applying traditional approaches like structuralism and genre study, I employ a high-modernist perspective to discuss the interactions between Christie’s literary texts and their social background. My study is expected to relocate Christie as an experimental writer in the literary history of detective fiction. |
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