西方文学中的审美现代性主题评述

Reviews of Theme of Aesthetic Modernity in Western Literature

现代社会与思维体系充满了审美特质,文学世界也沉淀着丰富的审美元素。审美现代性建立在宗教图景崩溃、凡俗文化成型时期,审美化生存成为重要文学主题,各类审美人频频登场,表达着不甘平庸拒绝异化的自我,情爱、漫游、成长均具有了审美意蕴;在与启蒙现代性分庭抗争之中,审美以独特的批判视角丰富文学的反叛主题,凸显现代自由,产生令人震惊的阅读效应,促进了现代伦理重构进程;它崇尚"瞬间"价值,力图构筑艺术的"永恒之境",探索着救赎之路。这些主题包容审美正负两极内容,触及了人性秘密、生存困境、人类命运等文学本质性问题,丰富了西方文学的精神园地。

Modem society and thought system are full of aesthetic features, and literary world has also accumulated abundant aesthetic elements. Aesthetic modernity took shape in the period of the collapse of religious faiths and formation of profane culture. Aesthetic existence became an important literary theme, and various types of ＂homo aestheticus＂ came on the stage to show their rejection of mediocrity and alienation, making their love, wandering and growth aesthetically valuable. In the process of fighting against enlightenment modernity, aesthetic enriches literary rebellion themes and highlights the modem freedom by employing its unique critical perspective, which produces shocking reading effects and promotes the reconstruction of modem ethics. It values ＂instant＂, tries to build the ＂eternal world＂ of art and searches for salvation. These themes involve themselves with both the positive and the negative, and explore essential literary problems such as secrets of human nature, dilemma of survival, human destiny, etc.