艾伦·辛菲尔德的文化唯物主义:英国马克思主义文学批评的新视角

Alan Sinfield’s Cultural Materialism

英国当代马克思主义文学批评家艾伦·辛菲尔德的文化唯物主义主要有两点贡献:第一,打破了形式主义垄断莎士比亚批评领域的局面,复兴了文本外部研究的潮流;第二,批判右翼势力对莎士比亚的挪用,揭示其背后愚化民众的用意。辛菲尔德的文化唯物主义代表了20世纪80年代英国新左派的学术重建之举,展示了左翼知识分子为对抗资本主义制度所作出的努力,是当代英国马克思主义文学批评的新视角。

Alan Sinfield is one of the renowned British contemporary Marxist critics.His cultural materialism counts on two aspects:his cultural materialism dominates Shakespearean study which were led by Formalism,reviving the external research;he uncovers the appropriation of Shakespeare’s works by British Right to enchant people with ideology in them.Alan Sinfield’s cultural materialism,representing the academic reconstruction of British New Left in 1980 s,demonstrating the efforts made by intellectuals against the capitalism,is the new perspective of British Marxist literary criticism.