视觉批评何以可能——图像时代文学阐释的视觉转向与审美创构

On the Possibility of Visual Criticism——Visual Turn and Aesthetic Construction of Literary Interpretation in the Image Age

随着现代社会图像表征的愈渐成熟与主流,图像对文学的挤压造成了现代意义上的"图—文"张力,也使得传统的文学批评场域发生了与图像时代相匹配的视觉转向,孕化出视觉批评这一新的文本阐释形态。视觉批评在延续传统文学批评主体特征的同时对文学母本的意义延展、审美内涵以及阐释者的主体身份都产生颠覆性的影响,营造出文学批评视觉化的现代景观,这一批评范式的形成得益于速度社会、消费意识乃至日常生活审美化等多元文化因素的现实滋养,而其本身的图像主导机制却又使得这一批评范式显露出难以回避的表意缺陷。

With the maturing and mainstreaming of the representation of modern social images, thesqueeze of the image to the literature has caused the image-language tension in the modern sense, andalso makes the visual turn of the traditional literary criticism field coincide with the image age andpregnant criticism of the visual interpretation of this new text form. Visual criticism, in the continuationof the traditional literary criticism, has subversive influence on the extension of the meaning of literarymother texts, the aesthetic connotation and the interpreter's subjective identity, which creates a visualcriticism of the modern landscape. The formation of this criticism owes to the speed of society, consumerawareness and even the aesthetic of daily life and other reality-nourishing cultural factors. However, theimage-led mechanism of this criticism paradigm makes it difficult to avoid its own intended defects.