西方古典文论视野中的“灵感说”

Inspiration Doctrine in the Views of Western Classical Literary Criticism

"灵感说",一直是中西文论研究的重要命题。主要表现为不同历史时期文艺理论家关乎创作灵感问题的批评言论,或结合作家、作品的评论,或总结作家的创作经验而旁及灵感现象,尚未有一个理论家对作家创作灵感的问题做过细致的研究,建立起系统的学说体系。本文试图对西方文论家论文艺创作灵感问题的主要观点略加概述,就"灵感说"在西方古代的原起和近代的嬗变作大体的梳理,较清晰地显现出西方古典文论中"灵感说"的概貌。

Inspiration doctrine is an important topic in the western literary criticism. Therefore, this article attempts to make a simple introduction to the main views in the inspiration doctrine of the western literary creation and the organization of the origin of the western inspiration doctrine in ancient time and also the changes in modern time so as to get a general outline of the western doctrine of the classical literary criticism.