诗学·诗歌·语言诗——玛乔瑞·帕洛夫教授访谈(英文)

Poetics, Poetry, Language Poetry: An Interview with Professor Marjorie Perloff

玛乔瑞.帕洛夫是美国斯坦福大学人文教授、美国艺术与科学院院士、美国现代语言协会2006届主席。帕洛夫教授是美国最重要的现代派诗歌和当代诗歌批评家之一,主要致力于先锋派实验诗歌研究以及先锋派诗歌与各种艺术领域(包括视觉艺术和文化理论)的现代主义运动、尤其是后现代主义运动的主要思潮的关系研究。学术论著包括《不确定诗学:从兰波到凯奇》等14种专著和近400篇论文。本次访谈主要围绕帕洛夫教授的诗学理论、她对于美国诗歌、特别是先锋派诗歌和语言派诗歌的思考来展开。帕洛夫教授总结和回顾了自己的诗学理论及其发展历程,并就诗学主张将自己和布鲁姆作了简要比较,将自己定位为是一个形式主义者、文学史家和注重价值评价的比较文学批评家。谈及美国诗歌时,帕洛夫教授阐述了自己对少数群体诗歌和外国诗歌载美国现代和后现代诗歌中的作用的见解。作为一个长期研究语言派诗歌的批评家,帕洛夫教授阐释了自己对于这一诗歌流派的性质、弱点等的独到理解,并分析了这一流派对于美国诗歌的意义。

Marjorie Perloff is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor Emerita of Humanities, Stanford University, USA, and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was 2006 president of the Modern Language Association if America（MLA）. She is one of the foremost American critics of modernist and contemporary poetry. Her work has been especially concerned with explicating the writing of experimental and avant-garde poets and relating it to the major currents of modernist and, especially, postmodernist activity in the arts, including the visual arts and cultural theory. She is author of 14 academic books such as The Poetics of Indeterminacy： Rimbaud to Cage, and nearly 400 essays. In June 2007, Professor Luo Lianggong, assistant Editor-in-chief of Foreign Literature Studies, had an interview, via Email, with Professor Marjorie Perloff just before she left for China to attend the International Conference on the 20th-Century American Poetry （July 21-23, 2007） organized by Foreign Literature Studies. This interview centers around Professor Perloff＇s poetics, her thinking on American poetry, particularly avant-garde poetry and Language poetry. Professor Perloff gives a summary of her poetics and its evolution, and also offers a tentative comparison between herself and Harold Bloom in terms of poetics. She tends to describe herself as a formalist, a literary historian and an evaluative comparatist critic. As to American poetry, she provides her insight to the role of minority poetry and foreign poetry in modern and post-modern American poetry. As a critic who has long studies Language poetry, Professor Perloff presents her unique understanding of the distinctive qualities and weak points of this poetic movement and of its significance in America poetry.