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Midas-Eared England

机译:迈达斯耳英格兰

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This essay reads Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present as a call for the reader to resist the reified language of cant by coming to understand signification as an act of human will. Though it is often read as a lament for lost meaning, I claim that the text offers a way through the nostalgia that structures its longing for the past into a future meaning made possible by the employment of metaphor and figure. Considering the layered tales of Midas, with which the text begins, and that of the Abbot Samson's near-revelation of the sanctified body of St Edmund, which structures its second section, I claim that these tales offer models of the acts of signification with which Carlyle tasks his reader. In insisting that the “Tongue of Man is a sacred organ,” Carlyle seeks to teach his reader both the capacity and the responsibility for the production of meaning in the world.
机译:本文阅读托马斯·卡莱尔的《过去与现在》,呼吁读者通过理解象征意义作为人类意志的行为来抵制陈腐的语言。尽管人们通常将其理解为对失去的意义的哀叹,但我声称,文本为怀旧提供了一种方式,将对过去的渴望转变为通过使用隐喻和图形而成为未来的意义。考虑到文本开始的迈达斯的分层故事,以及住持参孙对圣埃德蒙的圣体的近乎启示的故事,该故事构成了第二部分,我认为这些故事提供了意味行为的模型,卡莱尔负责他的读者。凯雷坚持认为“人的舌头是神圣的器官”,力图教他的读者在世界上产生意义的能力和责任。

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