苏珊·桑塔格作品的艺术、风格及现代性意识:利兰·伯格访谈录（英文）

Art,Style and Modern Consciousness in the Work of Susan Sontag:An Interview with Leland Poague

利兰·波格教授是桑塔格研究领域的重要学者之一,编有《苏珊·桑塔格谈话录》(1995)、合著有《苏珊·桑塔格资料辑录:1948-1992》(2000)等著作。顾明生博士于2016-2017学年在爱荷华州立大学英语系访学期间采访了波格教授,访谈内容涉及桑塔格研究中的一系列重要论题。在访谈中,波格教授分析了桑塔格所受的哲学训练与其箴言式、笔记式行文风格的反差及其成因;探究了她与犹太文化、弗洛伊德遗产之间的矛盾、复杂关系,检视了她在《激进意志样式》中描绘的艺术家和受众之间的关系图谱,并指出她关于现代性意识及其与语言关系的观点并不涉及极端的文化相对主义;他还谈及了她的电影和短篇小说中的超现实主义具有冷幽默特征;探究了《我,及其他》中短篇小说的内在关联性,分析了"意志"统摄小说集主题的作用;最后他还就读者如何客观看待桑塔格对其作品的解释与评价以及如何准确理解和把握她的虚构作品的思想内涵和艺术品质阐明了自己的观点。

Prof. Leland Poague, the editor of Conversations with Susan Sontag（1995） and co-author of Susan Sontag： An Annotated Bibliography 1948-1992（2000）, is one of the top scholars in the field of Sontag Studies. Dr. Gu Mingsheng, when working as a visiting scholar in the English Department at Iowa State University during the academic year 2016-2017, interviewed Prof. Poague on a wide range of issues concerning Sontag Scholarship. In this interview, Prof. Poague contrasts Sontag＇s aphoristic, note-style constructions with her training in academic philosophy. Apart from elaborating Sontag＇s ambivalent and complex relationships to Judaism and to Freud, he examines Sontag＇s picture of the artist and the audience in Styles of Radical Will, and contends that her view of modern consciousness and its relation to language does not entail extreme cultural relativism. Prof. Poague compares Sontag＇s films with her short fiction in their depiction of deadpan surrealism, and he discusses the unity of the short stories and the major thematic role of ＂will＂ in I, etcetera.In addition, Prof. Poague offers suggestions on relating Sontag＇s self assessment of her fiction to her success as a writer.