tailieunhanh - intellect Crash Culturesmodernity, mediation and the material phần 2

Hình 12,32 sâu răng tràn lan trong hội chứng miệng cho con bú chai. (Ảnh sự giúp đỡ của Tiến sĩ Thomas O'Toole).Hình 12,31 rách lần tiền đình do di dời cưỡng chế của phát hiện nhiều bị hỏng, mất màu, mất tích, hoặc avulsed | Will It Smash Modernity and the Fear of Falling places leave a morally explicable universe largely in place the same cannot be said for later post-Darwinian fictions inflected by naturalism. For Gissing Meredith and Hardy the crash precipitates experience from which little can be learnt or recuperated the violence and damage wrought by the initial disaster becomes a symptom of a whole life experience of unpredictability the epistemology has shifted from an individual to a systemic basis to occlude the act of resistance and to efface plots of recuperation and renovation. In The Whirlpool 1897 Gissing like Eliot re-positions the crash by bringing it to the forefront of the narrative making the crash the trigger for the major developments in the text. In chapter five of the novel the banker Bennet Frothingham commits suicide and within the hour the news spreads amongst its anxious investors. Frothingham s daughter Alma hoping to survive as a career singer becomes involved in a shadowy world of sexual intrigue. Like Eliot s Gwendolen she rescues herself from financial disaster through marriage but the man in question Harvey Rolfe is half-committed to an ethic of marital independence. Through benign neglect Alma becomes the victim of sexual speculation by both male and female predators. While Rolfe is himself disenchanted with the system of finance which maintains his rather pointless existence he becomes increasingly compromised by the forces against which as the possessor of moral and financial capital his wife has battled and against which had he been a traditional Victorian gentleman he would certainly have defended her. The crash has moved centre stage. Its psychic and social meanings are now being investigated as symptoms as well as the causes of a far-reaching and immanent condition in Gissing s text it finds representation in the figure of the whirlpool of modernity. This is a condition of existence which afflicts each character in the novel who is made to .