媒介美学视野下的网络玄幻小说

The Network Fantasy Novels from the Perspective of Media Aesthetics

网络玄幻小说具有的数字审美特征往往被夸大其词。当我们借助媒介美学理论来考察网络玄幻小说的超越对象、灭神情节和修炼行为时,可以发现其表现出视觉性、世俗性和技术性等印刷文学的典型特征。因此,网络玄幻小说的审美趣味应被视为印刷审美与数字审美的混杂态。以此为基础,可以发现新媒介与文学的复杂关系及数字技术对大众意识的"麻木"性问题。媒介研究的价值在于揭示我们身处其中的媒介和技术环境,发现其与我们的恰当关系。利用麦克卢汉的媒介美学揭示网络玄幻小说的印刷性,可以帮助大众从电子技术的麻木状态走出来,建立关于网络玄幻小说的混杂性审美图景。

The digital aesthetic features of the network fantasy novels are often exaggerated.When we use the theory of media aesthetics to examine the transcendent object,the exorbitant plot and the practice of the network fantasy novel,we find that it shows the typical characteristics of the printed literature such as being visual,secular and technical.Therefore,the aesthetic taste of the network fantasy novels should be regarded as the mixture of printed aesthetics and digital aesthetics.On this basis,we can find the complex relationship between the new media and literature and the ＂numbness＂of the digital technology to the public consciousness.The value of media research lies in revealing the medium and the technical environment in which we live and discovering their proper relationship with us.The use of Mc Luhan＇s media aesthetics reveals the printability of cyber fantasy novels,which can help the public to come out of the numbness of electronic technology and establish a hybrid aesthetic picture of network fantasy novels.