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标题：“You will see the logic of the design of this”: From Historiography to Taxonomographyin the Contemporary Metafiction of Sarah Waters’s Affinity
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作者：Martin Paul Eve
期刊名称：Neo-Victorian Studies
电子版ISSN：1757-9481
出版年度：2013
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：105-125
出版社：Swansea University
摘要：Although, in some ways, Sarah Waters's Affinity looks akin to historiographic metafiction, Marie-Luise Kohlke has persuasively argued that the text is more accurately dubbed "new(meta)realism", a mode that demonstrates the exhausted potential of the form. This article suggests that genre play and a meta-generic mode, dubbed taxonomography, might be a further helpful description for the mechanism through which Waters's novel effects its twists and pre-empts the expectations of an academic discourse community. This reading exposes Waters's continuing preoccupation with the academy but also situates her writing within a broader spectrum of fiction that foregro unds genre as a central concern. Ultimately, this article asks whether Waters's novel can, itself, be considered as a text that disciplines its o wn acad emic stud y in the way that it suggests that the academy has become, once more, blind to class.
关键词：Affinity; disciplinarity; genre; historiography; metafiction; taxonomography; ;Sarah Waters