简介:Womenwritersasananalyticalcategoryhassincethelate1990sgainedconsiderabletractioninthestudiesofpre-modernChineseliterature,withtranslations,anthologies,andthematicexplorationssurfacinganeweveryfewyearsineithermonographsoreditedvolumes.Referencetofeministliterarycriticismasananalyticalframework,however,isstillafairlyrecentdevelopment—thatis,untilRonaldEgan’sdefinitiveworkunderreviewhereonthemostwell-knownfemalepoetoftheentireChinesetradition,LiQingzhao李清照(1084-ca.1155).Notonlyisthis11-chapter,422-pagetreatmentofasinglewomanafirstinEnglishscholarship,Egan’stheoreticalstancealsomarksadeparturefromearlierworksthatplacetheirsubjectmattersinamorenativecontext.ThatalonemakesTheBurdenofFemaleTalentamustreadforallstudentsofChineseliterature.Moreover,throughoutthewholebookEganneverallowstheoreticaldiscussiontoovershadowhisfocusedanalysesofLiQingzhaoandthecircumstancesandchallengesshefacedasawomanwriter,thusretainingthedistinctiveappealofthebooktothemoretraditionalreadershipofSinology.Thisisnottodiscount,however,Egan’sconversancewithfeministcriticism;infact,his“substantialdebt”(p.8)toitisveryrecognizable,sincetheunderlyingapproachesarefullysubsumableundermuchofthepreoccupationsandassumptionsoffeministliterarytheory—and,consequently,susceptibletocritiquesofthetheoryingeneral.
简介:<正>历代艾米丽·勃朗特姐妹研究中,人们难免为一个问题所困扰,那就是艾米丽为什么能写出《呼啸山庄》?1846年,勃朗特姐妹的诗作失败,三个人商定各写一部小说。八个月之后,艾米丽的《呼啸山庄》就写完了(其他两姐妹的《简爱》和《安格尼斯·格雷》也先后完成出版)。夏洛蒂和安妮的小说均有自己当家庭教师的经历为基础,有较强的自传色彩。后来却是艾米丽的小说声誉最大,而且成了千古名篇。那么,艾米丽究竟是哪来的生活积累?豪渥斯荒原如何哺育出一位20多岁的作家?从未体验过爱情生活的艾米丽怎能写出轰轰烈烈的爱情与复仇故事?于是竟有一度所谓著作权问题,竟有小说实为哥哥勃兰威尔所作、或为其父帕特里克所作、或为夏洛蒂所作的各种猜测性的文字。其他肯定艾米丽著作权的争论,也由于作家生平资料缺乏,难以做出令所有人信服的切实解释。