论霍桑的审美现代性

Hawthorne’s Aesthetic Modernity

美国浪漫主义作家霍桑一直是批评界关注的焦点之一。其主要原因在于他文学创作的审美现代性,即他以敏锐的感悟力,从相反的方向去反思现代性,去反思物化文明对人的威胁和统治。他不仅从现实出发展现人在现实世界的自我失落、孤独和异化,从文化的角度展开对“恶之人性”的批判;而且以独特的审美视角,努力寻求一种摆脱这种异化状态的途径,希望通过回归乡土与自然,以实现“人诗意地栖居”的完美状态,从而获得人类的精神家园。

Hawthorne, the American romantic writer, has always enjoyed a high literary status and reputation as a classic writer, but his literary importance also lies in the aesthetic modernity of his literary creation. With his keen insight he has speculated in a negative way on modernity, that is, the threat of the materialized civilization to man and its control of man. He shows people’s loss of self, alienation and solitude and criticizes man’s evil nature. Moreover, he attempts to find, from his unique aesthetic perspective, a way to get rid of alienation: he hopes to return to his native land and nature so that he can live poetically in his spiritual homeland.