玻璃的空间意义与建构功能

The Spatial Meaning and Constructional Function of Glass

玻璃凭借其独特的物理、化学特性在建筑与日常生活中起着重要作用,同时也在不同的历史文化发展阶段被赋予了不同的含义:从中世纪的“虚空”与“死亡”到浪漫主义时期“幸运”的象征与自我认知的隐喻,再到现代与后现代时期主体性的解构,玻璃与人类文明发展息息相关。它既是人类表达情感、改造世界的工具与手段,也为人们了解世界、认知自我打开了新维度。除此之外,玻璃更在文学作品中承载着空间建构的功能,它一方面推动了人类思维的空间转向,另一方面也成为空间的文化转向的实例与验证。

Glass has greatly changed people’s way of seeing the world.This study,by tracing the historical changes of the symbolic meanings of glass as a literary motif,aims at defining the postmodernist features of glass,arguing that glass plays a revolutionary role in the construction of modern space,and that at the same time it challenges any personal space.Glass has significantly enriched the post-modernists’ ways of creation,due to its fragility,transparency and other optical properties,as well as its incongruity with experience,helping to present a fragile, chaotic,fragmented and unrecognizable world.Glass is resistant to any traces,symbolizing that postmodernist experience is easily erased,and what is left over is only an empty,fragmented,and dissolved identity.