晚清至五四:中国现代性与文学视觉性

On Modernity and Literary Visuality in China from Late Qing Dynasty to May Fourth Movement

晚清至五四时期,中国开始百年现代化历程。视觉性是现代性的重要表现形式之一,这种视觉性语境也反过来定义了现代性。摄影、电影等新兴技术的产生促进了现代性主体的产生,使他们重新审视世界、认识自我。文学在这一时期,受到视觉性表达机制的影响,呈现出现代性特点:一方面,文字顺应视觉化趋向的需求,表现出文字向视觉性的靠拢;另一方面,文学对抗视觉化趋向,坚守自己的阵地,用文字表意的方式对抗视觉技术呈现事件带来的震惊。用视觉文化的理论反观这段时期,可以发现图像与文字间的此消彼长、相互调适的动态过程。

From the late Qing Dynasty to May 4th Movement,China started the course of modernization.As one of the important manifestations of modernity,the visual context defines modernity in turn.The emergence of new technologies,such as photography and film,promoted the emergence of modern subjects and made them reexamine the world and know themselves.In this period,literature,influenced by the mechanism of visual expression,presented the characteristics of modernity.On the other hand,literature confronted the visual tendency,held its own position,and confronted the shock brought by the presentation of events by visual technology by means of literal representation.When the theory of visual culture is consciously used to look back on this period,the dynamic process of image and literature can be found.