“能源人文”对文学研究对象和方法的重塑

Energy Humanities:A Force That Reshapes the Subject and Methods for Literary Studies

本文旨在考察近十年新兴于欧美的“能源人文”跨学科领域对文学批评的特殊意义,以补充和丰富国内目前尚以介绍为主的相关讨论。本文指出,“能源人文”不仅是重新认识文学研究对象、重写文学史的新途径,还从方法论层面,给阅读和阐释提供了深刻的社会和生态批判视角。除了为文学生产提供物质支持外,能源作为隐形的力量场,从情节、结构、修辞、意识形态等层面塑造着文本形式和内容。最后,由于“能源人文”深刻关注环境/资源正义与社会结构公平,它终将以人为本、指向地球可持续的未来。

By examining the significance of Energy Humanities for literary studies,a rising interdisciplinary feld in Europe and America in the past decade,the article hopes to enrich domestic discussions on the relevant topic that have so far been based on general introductions only.This article argues that Energy Humanities not only promises a new approach to reexamining the subject of literary studies and rewriting literary history,but also,in terms of methodologies,offers a profound insight into social and ecological criticism for reading and interpretation.Apart from being a material support for literary production,energy,as an invisible force field,shapes the plot,structure,rhetoric,and ideologies of texts.Lastly,with a deep concern for environmental/resource justice and structural equality,Energy Humanities is ultimately human and forward-looking to a sustainablefuture.