“绿色浪漫主义”:浪漫主义文学经典的重构与重读

Green Romanticism:A Remapping of Romanticism Studies

作为浪漫主义研究中一种新兴的批评范式,"绿色浪漫主义"(浪漫主义文学研究中的生态批评范式)在理论上明确批判新历史主义—新马克思主义批评中的人类中心主义和非唯物论倾向,在实践中注重从当代生态问题入手重读或重构浪漫主义文学经典——后者典型地体现在以贝特对华兹华斯《湖区指南》的经典重构和莫顿对雪莱《麦布女王》的经典重读之中。在当代全球化生态危机的背景之下,"绿色浪漫主义"研究的重大意义在于它不仅丰富了浪漫主义的研究图谱,而且对于当今文学批评从空洞的语言—符号研究和偏执的意识形态批判重新转向现实关怀和社会担当也具有重要的启示作用。

＂Green Romanticism＂,a burgeoning critical paradigm in English romanticism studies,takes issues with new historicist-new Marxist anthropomorphism and anti-materialism in theory,and focuses its critical attention on re-reading and recharging the Romantic canon in practice.The present paper opens with a brief analysis of Green Romanticism＇s theoretical premises,which is followed by a case study of re-canonization of Wordsworth and the rereading of Shelley by Bate and Morton respectively.In conclusion,the paper argues that the significance of ＂Green Romanticism＂ lies in enriching Romanticism studies and re-directing literary criticism from formalist textualism and ideological critique into a new social criticism.