“虚薄”:一种新型阅读/写作实践

Infrathin:Toward a New Reading/Writing Practice in Literature

“虚薄”概念由20世纪法国最伟大的先锋主义画家马塞尔·杜尚提出,旨在显示相似乃至相同之物间实则存在的细微不同。而诗歌作为反映区别的艺术,具有形式层面的复杂性、语义层面的丰富性以及独有的唯一性等特点。这些特点不仅通过语义内容得以表达,还通过声音和视觉渠道得以彰显。因此,本文引介杜尚的“虚薄”概念,以托·斯·艾略特等人的作品为例,重新审视传统的诗歌阅读方式,认为在“虚薄”概念框架下进行的诗歌阅读实践可以更加有效地展现诗歌内部的语言、声音和语义信息,体现存在于诗歌本体中的艺术效果,为新时期的诗歌阅读、批评和创作提供新的思路。

The term“Infrathin”comes from Marcel Duchamp,perhaps the greatest avant-gardist of the 20th century.By“infrathin,”Duchamp meant the smallest possible difference between the similar or even the same.Poetry is the art of difference,and its qualities are complexity,density,and,given the idea of difference,uniqueness.These qualities are achieved by sound and visual appearance as much as by semantics.Therefore,this article first introduces Duchamp’s concept of“Infrathin,”and then,with the examples of T.S.Eliot and many others,reexamine the traditional poetry reading practice.By doing so,it argues that the poetry reading practice under theframework of“Infrathin”could effectively express the verbivocovisual information in a poem,and could also show its artistic effects,offering a new way for the poetry reading,criticism and writing practice in a new era.