神性信仰与当代中国现代主义诗学——以北村为例

Belief in Divinity and Contemporary Chinese Modernist Poetics:with Bei Cun As an Example

中国自古称神州,在先秦的典籍中也有"神人以和"的古训,但后来我们民族淡化了神性信仰之维而强化了实用理性之维。而从西方来看,其诗学和神学有一个交汇之处便是现代主义。当代中国现代主义也应该汲取现代神性信仰的价值,以创造出既具有民族特性又具有普适性价值的新诗学。基督教徒作家北村的现代主义诗学呈现出了这方面的鲜明特点,值得关注。

China has been known as ＂the Divine Land＂ since time immemorial, there is even an old saying of ＂achieving harmony between God and the people＂ in the pre - Qin - Dynasty classics. Our nation however has diluted the dimension of its divine faith and strengthened that of its pragmatic reason ever since. Yet viewed from the Western mentality, poetics and theology bear an intersecting point somewhere in between, namely modernism. Therefore, contemporary Chinese modernism should too absorb the value of modern belief in deity, so as to create a new poetics with both national characteristics and universal values. The modernist poetics of Bei Cun a Christian writer presents distinctive characteristics in this aspect and is worthy of attention.