美学现代性的悖反和机器的具身化--哈特·克兰作品中对现代机器的美学表现问题刍议

The paradox of aesthetic modernity and the em-bodiment of machine: A study on Hart Crane’s aesthetic representation of modern machine

本文将哈特·克兰对现代机器的美学表现置于美学现代性的背景中进行考察,克兰的机器书写源于一种在诗歌中回应和赞颂当代经验的欲求。然而在克兰试图表现现代机器的过程中,出现了一种内在的悖反。现代机器必须经由隐喻而转化成传统的有机事物,方能被纳入诗歌的传统审美体制中。传统世界从而仍旧占据了实际在场的位置,使得克兰竭力表现的当代形同虚设。这种内在悖反的根源在于现代性力图复苏的身体感性和离身化的现代机器之间的抵牾,而克兰对现代机器的美学表现实是一种将机器具身化的艰难渴望。

This thesis offers a study on Crane’s aesthetic representation of modern machine in the context of aesthetic modernity,and argues that Crane’s machine writings originate from a desire of representing the new experience of his contemporary world. However,in the process of representing modern machine,an internal paradox occurs. Modern machine has to be metamorphosed into traditional organic things in order to enter the aesthetic realm. As a result,the traditional world actually occupies the present position,making Crane’s contemporaneity exist in name only. This thesis argues that at the bottom of this paradox is a discord between human body that modernity strives to resuscitate and the modern machine that in the meanwhile alienates human body,and the essence of Crane’s aesthetic representation of modern machine is a desperate desire of em-bodying the machine.