思考批评的功能——从艾略特的“客观对应物”说起

On the Function of Criticism——Clarification of Eliot's "Objective Correlative"

艾略特文论的核心是研究作品的具体表现形式。艾学批评界则热衷建立他的理论体系。他使用过的一些抽象名词含义被夸大后显得模糊和空洞,"客观对应物"就是其中的一个,讨论它的来龙去脉和还原它的本相是为了引发对文学批评实用功能的思考,并表达了对理论发展趋势的一种期盼:言守其实,简化理论。

The focus of Eliot＇s criticism is on the elucidation of works as art. But the theoretic propensity for abstraction in the study of Eliot＇s criticism has kept some of literary terms in obscurity, like “Objective Correlative”. The clarification of its identity aims to raise the awareness of the practical function of literary criticism and to call for a more developed sense of fact and a direct treatment of theories in academic research.