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1、JosephConrad's"WildStoryofaJournalist"Rubery,Matthew.ELH,Volume71,Number3,Fall2004,pp.751-774(Article)PublishedbyTheJohnsHopkinsUniversityPressDOI:10.1353/elh.2004.0042Foradditionalinformationaboutthisarticlehttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/summary/v071/71.3rubery.htmlAcce
2、ssProvidedbyBTCAUniversitatdeBarcelonaat03/16/1112:27PMGMTJOSEPHCONRAD’S“WILDSTORYOFAJOURNALIST”BYMATTHEWRUBERYIngreatempiresthepeoplewholiveinthecapital,andintheprovincesremotefromthesceneofaction,feel,manyofthem,scarceanyinconveniencyfromthewar;butenjoy,attheirease,theam
3、usementofreadinginthenewspaperstheexploitsoftheirownfleetsandarmies.—AdamSmith,TheWealthofNations(1776)Weshudderatthebrutalityofthewayabutcherusestheknife:ah,butthisisnothingatallcomparedtothemostdreadfulrecklessnessandcallousnesswithwhichajournalist,addressinghimselftothe
4、wholecountry,ifpossible,usesuntruth.—SørenKierkegaard,Journals(1849)HenryStanleytraveledtoAfricainJanuary1871withthefollow-ingassignmentfromtheNewYorkHerald:“FindoutLivingstone,andgetwhatnewsyoucanrelatingtohisdiscoveries.”1Monthaftermonthreaderswatchedthenewspapersforrepo
5、rtsofthesilentexplorer.NewsofDr.DavidLivingstone’sdiscoveries—andhisowndiscovery,inthiscase—reachedLondoninMay1872tothedelightofinternationalaudiences.2OneimpressedreaderwasJosephConrad,whorecalledhearingtheaccomplishmentsofexplorers“whisperedtomeinmycradle”andreadingasabo
6、yLivingstone’sMissionaryTravelsandResearchesinSouthAfrica(1857),asourceofthesentimentaldaydreamsthatwouldonedaymakehimasteamboatcaptainontheCongo.3Thenewspaperitselfreadlikeanexplorationnarrativeatsuchmoments,nevermoresothaninthejournalismofStanley,whointroducedthepresstot
7、erritoryformerlyreservedfortheexplorer’slonevoice.Stanley’sdispatchesgaveaudiencestheimpressionsofacorrespondent,theadventuresofanexplorer,andtheplotsofanovelist,allinasinglecolumn.Yetthesedispatchesalsogaveaudiencesamisleadingperspectiveonevents,asConradlearnedwhenhisownA
8、fricanexperiencesfailedtocorrespondwithMatthewRuberyELH71(2004)751–774©2004byTheJohnsHopk
