文学研究中的“听觉转向”与文化建构--“听觉与文化”学术研讨会述评

Acoustic Turn and Cultural Construction in Literary Studies

在视觉文化大行其道的今天,原本作为人类认识世界的重要感官途径——"听"在文学研究中越来越不受重视,而各种"声音"在诸多文学文本中却又扮演着不可或缺的角色。本文从读图时代的局限、剖析声音的意义和重构"听"在文学研究中的功能三个方面概括、评述国内学者在听觉领域的探索,并得出以下结论:视觉的过度运用严重限制了文学研究特别是外国文学研究向纵深发展,必须重拾"听觉"这一重要研究维度,而积极开展听觉研究的理论建构和实践探索、摆脱既有理论窠臼,则是推进乃至实现文学研究中的"听觉转向"的关键所在。

Nowadays the prevalence of visual culture leads to the ignorance of ＂hearing＂ little by little in literary study, though ＂hearing＂ serves as an important sensual approach for human beings to understand the world. Various kinds of ＂sounds＂, however, play an indispensable part in the textual reading of literature. This essay aims at summarizing and further commenting on the domestic scholars＇ exploration in acoustic research by mentioning the limitations of visual reading era, finding the meaning of sounds and reconstructing the function of hearing in literary study and thereby, concludes that the overuse of vision strictly restrains the development of literary studies in scope and depth, foreign literary studies in particular. Then it becomes urgent to resume the acoustic study-an important research dimension. The encouragement and support in the theoretical construction and practical application of acoustic research in order to go beyond the existing theoretical system becomes the key to promote the realization of acoustic turn in literary studies.