'Pécher par omission': Censorship, Gender, and Narrative Logic in the Late NineteenthCentury French Novel

“Pécher par omission”：十九世纪晚期法国小说中的审查制度、性别和叙事逻辑

基本信息

批准号：
2605761
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
University of Cambridge
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2605761
关键词：
cher par omission Censorship Gender

项目摘要

My research focuses on the effect of censorship on the narrative logic of French novels in the second half of thenineteenth century. Maxime du Camp wrote that authors could draw censors' attention 'par omission,' indicating acomplex narrative interaction between the 'said' and the 'unsaid,' which enables literary subversion. Communicating withthe reader by omissions requires an appeal to shared discourses that exist elsewhere, and which could endure beyondthe passing of the law on freedom of the press in 1881. I will compare newspapers and magazines, official governmenttexts, trial reports, and authors' correspondence and newspaper articles with novelistic discourse and its omissions. Thiswill illuminate how realist novelists censored themselves, how 'unsaidness' functioned in this cultural-historical context,and how novelists integrated socio-political criticism into their novels by manipulating the mechanics of expression andrepression. My research asks: how did politically motivated 'unsaidness' foster the period's aesthetic fixation on femalesexual transgression? I propose that repressed criticisms of social and political trends were displaced onto female-codedproxies, particularly sexual transgression and hyper-fixation on the female body, which outlived the contexts ofcensorship in which they were created. I will foreground Flaubert's novels and the later work of George Sand, andanalyse the legacy of these authors on Émile Zola and Guy de Maupassant.

我的研究重点是十九世纪下半叶审查制度对法国小说叙事逻辑的影响，马克西姆·杜坎写道，作者可以“不遗余力”地引起审查者的注意，这表明“所说”与“所言”之间存在着复杂的叙事互动。 “不言而喻”，通过省略与读者进行交流需要诉诸其他地方存在的共同话语，并且这种话语可以在 1881 年新闻自由法通过之后继续存在。我将进行比较。报纸和杂志、官方政府文本、审判报告以及带有小说话语及其遗漏的作者信件和报纸文章这将阐明现实主义小说家如何审查自己，“不言而喻”如何在这种文化历史背景下发挥作用，以及小说家如何整合社会。 - 通过操纵表达和压抑的机制将政治批评融入到他们的小说中我的研究提出了这样的问题：出于政治动机的“不言而喻”如何促进了这一时期对女性性越轨的审美固定？社会和政治趋势被转移到了女性编码的代理上，特别是性越轨和对女性身体的过度迷恋，它们在审查制度的背景下仍然存在，我将在福楼拜的小说和乔治·桑后来的作品中强调这一点。并分析这些作家对埃米尔·佐拉和居伊·德·莫泊桑的影响。