传统认识论美学向当代存在论美学的跨越——薇拉·凯瑟的生态审美观刍议

Transformation from Traditional Epistemological Aesthetics to Contemporary Ontological Aesthetics:Discussion on Willa Cather's Ecological Aesthetics

薇拉.凯瑟是美国20世纪上半叶最具影响力的小说家之一。她以具有丰富生态内涵的美国西部边疆为背景,在内布拉斯加大草原上精心营造了一个人与自然和谐相处﹑两性融溶共存的"诗意地栖居"的理想家园。本文从三个层次着重探究凯瑟作品中所蕴含的人与自然和社会达到动态平衡、和谐一致的处于生态审美状态的崭新的生态存在论美学观,以期为正面临生态与生存危机的当代人类示范一种符合生态规律的审美的存在状态。

Willa Cather was one of the most influential writers in the first half of 20th century in America.With American western frontiers rich in ecological connotations as the background,she carefully created so many ideal homes of poetic dwelling in Nebraska Prairie where people lived with the nature harmoniously and two genders coexisted cozily.From three levels the paper mainly investigates the new ecological ontological aesthetics in Willa Cather＇s works,focused on ecological aesthetic state in which man and nature have reached dynamic balance and harmonious unity with the aim of demonstrating an aesthetic state of existence in line with ecological laws for contemporary people who are faced with ecological and survival crisis.