坚持寻求一种新的自由——审美现代性与G.斯泰因的诗歌语言试验

"Asserting a New Freedom" :Aesthetic Modernity and G.Stein's Radical Poetic Experiment

毫无疑问,美国诗人格特鲁德·斯泰因早已被确认为英美现代主义诗歌当之无愧的大师之一。但是,由于其诗歌极端的语言实验性,大多数的研究都围绕其诗歌技巧展开,而忽视了其作为英美诗歌现代化开拓者之一的历史价值与意义。如若从审美现代性的角度看,斯泰因在诗歌语言及形式上的极端实验则体现了现代主义诗歌在草创时期的一些核心诗学观念;她的创新实验,与休姆、庞德、T.S.艾略特的诗歌理论及创作一起,促进和推动了英美现代主义诗歌运动的形成与发展,同时也展现了美学现代性对现存社会秩序的挑战与反抗,表达了现代诗人自我确认与追求自由的努力。

Undoubtedly, Gertrude Stein has been rightly regarded as one of the great Anglo-American modernist poets. But most of the academic findings are about her creative techniques as she stands as one extreme of radical poetic experiment, and her historical value as an important forerunner of the modernist movement has been ignored. From the perspective of aesthetic modernity, Stein＇s radical formal experiment, to a great extent, reveals some core poetic ideas of the Anglo- American modernist poetry at its early stage, and her poetic practice, together with the work of E. Pound, T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hume, promotes the prosperity of that poetry movement. Moreover, her persistence in poetic experiment is a claim for the poet＇s self- identification and pursuit of freedom, as well as a revolt against the existing social order.