再读现代诗歌重品城市生活——评《“恶之花”:英美现代派诗歌中的城市书写》

Re-reading Modernist Poetry and Tasting Modern City Life Anew: A Review of “Les Fleurs du Mal”: Urban Writing in Anglo-American Modernist Poetry

欧荣等著的《“恶之花”:英美现代派诗歌中的城市书写》是英美现代派诗学的新探索。该著作以列斐伏尔的日常生活审美化为主线将英美现代派诗歌纳入一个诗学体系进行探讨,描绘了一幅现代派城市诗学波澜壮阔的图景。《“恶之花”》对耳熟能详的经典诗作进行重新诠释,丰富了我们对现代主义诗歌的再认识,令人耳目一新,也为都市中的现代人重新品味城市生活提供了借鉴。作为英美现代派诗歌研究的又一力作,它将成为外国文学、比较文学和文艺批评等领域研究者的难得参考书目,也将成为英美文学爱好者的有效教科书。

“Les Fleurs du Mal”: Urban Writing in Anglo-American Modernist Poetry (2018) written by Ou Rong and other two scholars is an exploration in modern Anglo-American poetry. Based on Henri Lefebvre’s “aestheticization of everyday life”, this book puts Anglo-American modernist poetry into one poetic paradigm and depicts a wonderful picture of modern urban writing. It reinterprets some well-known classical modern poems and makes them new, which inspires urban people to taste modern everyday life anew. As an in-depth academic study on Anglo-American modernist poetry, the book serves as a valuable reference for scholars in foreign literatures, comparative literatures, and literary and art criticism, as well as a good textbook for literary majors and amateurs.