路径·格局·视角:“严肃性”的美学维度——托马斯·曼与桑塔格比较研究

Route,Pattern,Insight:The Seriousness of Aesthetic Dimension——A comparative Study of Thomas Mann and Sontag

作为20世纪重要的作家和批评家,托马斯·曼和桑塔格均脱胎于欧洲现代思想文明,主张严肃性写作,创造丰富的文学体系,积极打造和维护百科全书式的智库大厦;同时,他们崇敬艺术,强调零度写作姿态。桑塔格与托马斯·曼在创作中的隔空对话实现了美学实践的高度契合,体现对全才式智性审美的留恋,也是艺术家创造性活动的必然结果。他们苦心孤诣的审美理念为现代美学理论建构提供参照。“艰难之旅”“智慧工程”和“艺术家身份”等多重视角有助于探知两位作家在美学实践中对“严肃性”的诠释与坚守。

Thomas Mann and Sontag are both landmark figures in Western modern culture.Their creative careers have spanned almost half a century and have influenced generations of intellectuals.They actively developed a deep and broad artistic path,and achieved extremely high attainments in intellectual novels and reading notes,which had far-reaching significance to contemporary Western literary history and criticism.For Sontag,who appeared later,Thomas Mann was the navigation light of her youth and the reference frame of her life writing.Thomas Mann’s profound influence on Sontag’s creative ideas is the basis for comparative research on the two of them.