布莱希特之后西方戏剧美学的困境与发展

The Dilemma and Development of Western Dramatic Aesthetics after Brecht

汉斯-蒂斯·雷曼将布莱希特看作后现代戏剧的真正起点。而布莱希特之后,西方后现代戏剧开始寻求更为彻底的变革方式,他们将艺术与生活的界限完全打破,反对从亚里士多德开始的逻各斯中心主义传统,质疑语言(文本)对戏剧的统摄,努力开发全部身体以取代解释性的手势。但这种抹杀式的变革也带来诸多问题,西方后现代戏剧或将走向极端虚无主义。同时,由于跨文化交流的影响,中国戏剧也在后现代浪潮中遭遇了相应的挑战。

Hans-Thies Lehmann regards Brecht as the real starting point of postmodern drama.However,after Brecht,western postmodern drama began to seek for a more thorough reform.They broke the boundary between art and life completely,opposed the tradition of logocentrism starting from Aristotle,questioned the control of language(text)on drama,and tried to develop the whole body to replace explanatory gestures.But this kind of obliterating change also brings many problems,the western postmodern drama may go to the extreme nihilism.At the same time,due to the influence of intercultural communication,Chinese drama has also encountered corresponding challenges in the wave of postmodernism.