现当代文学批评传统新解——评布拉德福德《莎士比亚好不好?:论文学质量评判》

Is Shakespeare Any Good?: And Other Questions on How to Evaluate Literature: A New Diagnosis of Modern and Contemporary Literary Criticism

在其专著《莎士比亚好不好?:论文学质量评判》中,布拉德福德重审了现当代西方文学批评及教育史,重新定义了文学现代主义运动的性质,并对其影响进行了再评估,指出"质量评判"的缺失是现当代文学批评传统的主要特征,这对文学与文学批评的发展带来了负面影响。此书虽成书早于2016年诺贝尔奖颁奖,却有助于我们剖析迪伦获奖背后的逻辑,并提供了审视文学研究现状的新视角。

In Is Shakespeare Any Good： And Other Questions on How to Evaluate Literature, Richard Bradford re-examines the history of modern and contemporary literary criticism and education, re-defines the nature of literary modernism as a literary movement, and re-evaluates its impact on literature, pointing out that the absence of evaluation, a main feature of present-day literary criticism, exerts a negative impact on the development of literature and its criticism. The monograph offers a new perspective on the status quo of literary criticism, and although published before the 2016 Nobel Prize of Literature ＂scandal＂, Bradford＇s work functions as a useful model for analyzing the making of Bob Dylan＇s Nobel Prize.