西方文学作品中时间概念的嬗变

Reflection on Transmutation of Time in Western Literary Works

西方人在从神学、天文学等领域进入现代科学的过程中,用有关"神"的童话填补自身对自然现象认知的空白,既充满对生命与青春的赞美与喜悦,又对伴随而来的衰老和死亡悲伤、怀疑与恐惧。通过颠覆传统表现出的繁杂现代时间概念,体现的是作家对四处泛滥的孤独漂泊、纷乱异化、困惑迷茫等人类生存主题集体消极地移情和思辩。这些建立在传统宇宙观基质上的构想与创作,使不同时间概念的嬗变轨迹客观地浮现,反映了时间的传统和现代特征,从一个侧面展现了西方社会复杂的物质和精神生活。

Concepts of time perceived and described with traditional cosmological images exist in a great quantity in western literary works.It is the corollary of complicated contradictory expression aiming at filling a gap of cognition about natural phenomenon by means of mythological tales during ages of infrastructure of western theology,astronomy etc.and later on modern science,which eulogizes ecstasy for life and youth and presents grief,suspect even fear with the puzzles brought out by decrepit of old age.While the miscellaneous modern concepts after subverting the traditional ones display writers＇ collective passive transference and intellectual inquires into such human survival themes as rootless solitude,involute dissimilation,bewilderment and so on.All the literary conception and creation based on traditional cosmology manifests a transmutation by reflecting time＇s traditional and modern characteristics,as well as the dynamic development of relevant learnings,which offers us a profile of western material and spiritual life.