图像时代的文学变异——文学与图像关系的演变及其理论思考

The Literary Variation in the Age of Image——Theoretical Thinking on the Evolution of the Relation of Literature and Image

新中国头三十年纸质文化和播放媒体(广播、收音机)占据主导地位。报纸、图书、广播是读者阅读或信息获取的主渠道。新时期以来,随着电视、电脑、手机的普及以及电影的产业化改革,我国进入了图像时代。图像时代的到来催生了新的文学类型,也改变了文学与图像之间的关系。图像摆脱了对叙事的依附地位,出现了越来越多文图合一的复合文本,它们追求可知性与可视性的对等性;特别是一些自媒体视频挣脱语言、文字甚至声音的束缚,展现了独立叙事的可能性。表面上看,上述趋势体现了语言的保守性和图像的活跃性,其实是欲望与图像及观看之间默契关系的表现。

The culture in paper and broadcast media(broadcasting and radio) predominated in the first three decades of New China. Newspaper, books and broadcasting were the main approaches for readers to read or to acquire information. Since New Period, our country enters the age of the image, with the popularization of television, computer and cellphone and the industrial revolution of movie. The advent of the age of the image has given birth to new literary genres, and also changed the relation of literature and image. Image gets rid of its subordination to narration: more and more composite texts emerge with the combination of literature and image, in pursuit of the equality between knowability and visuality;some new media, in particular, show the possibility of independent narrative, without the limitation of language, words,even voice. These tendencies seemingly reflect the conservatism of language and the flexibility of images,while they actually reveal the tacit agreement among desire, image and view.