明镜与阴霾:雪莱眼中的文学与媒介——兼论媒介转换中文学的焦虑与出路

Mirror and Cloud:Literature and Media in Shelley's Eyes

雪莱在《为诗辩护》中论及文学与媒介的关系,认为"文学如明镜,媒介如阴霾"。媒介转换过程中,文学处于深深的焦虑之中并力求探寻其自身的出路。认为文学应该以开放的姿态容纳新的文学研究因素,只有把以媒介为主的艺术样式纳入到文学研究的视野,一方面坚守文学的人性关怀与精神超越性,另一方面加强对媒介的文学性研究,拓展文学研究的维度,进而更新文学自身的体系,才是文学的出路。

Shelley,in A Defense of Poetry,explores the relationship between literature and media.In his eyes,literature is like a mirror which reflects the light,but a medium like a picture is a cloud which enfeebles the light.Literature is in a great anxiety and attempts to find its way out during the changing time of media.It should absorb new research elements with its open mind.Its way out can be found only by absorbing new art styles like media,keeping its concern on human nature and spiritual transcendence,strengthening the research on the literariness of media,expanding the dimension of literary research,and ultimately renewing the literary system itself.