布莱克的“世界”与前现代历史预言

Blake’s“World”and His Pre-modern Historical Prophecies

当代学者一般认为英国浪漫主义时代是凸显现代民族意识的时代,但事实上在浪漫主义话语体系里,世界主义也是一个不可忽视的维度。威廉·布莱克的"先知书"系列作品创造了一个脱离理性经验的全球化世界,他的创作动因源于历史他异性的预言。他的两首诗歌《至上的形象》和《耶路撒冷:巨人阿尔比恩的流溢体》揭示出其信仰同源论与普世帝国预言是一种另类的现代性批判,充满了颠覆现代工具理性的"前现代"他者力量。

Current critics focus more on the modern nationalism in British Romanticism and leave cosmopolitanism,virtually a pivotal component of Romantic discourses,less examined.As a demonstration of cosmopolitanism,William Blake’s“prophetic books”create a globalized world separate from the common reason and empiricism.Drawing upon the analysis of his historical alterity prophecies,this paper examines Blake’s“The Divine Image”and“Jerusalem:The Emanation of the Giant Albion”,to reveal that his belief of“All Religions Are One”and his prospect of Universal Empire are an alternative form of critique of modernity,filled with the pre-modern dynamics to subvert the modern instrumentality.