穿透回音壁:评伊格尔顿《批评的革命者》

A Review of Terry Eagleton's Critical Revolutionaries:Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read

本文从伊格尔顿新著《批评的革命者》中提取了关于学院内外、审美公共性、批评的求真这三条线索,梳理了伊格尔顿在本书中与自身著作谱系的对话;同时也探讨了本书在宏观问题意识和具体论述层面,与近十年涉及文学批评伦理的其他重要著作的对话,尤其是诺思的《文学批评:一部简明政治史》。本文提出,《批评的革命者》通过重返20世纪上半叶剑桥英语系“批评革命”的传统,希望召唤一种能够穿透学院话语回音壁的公共批评,并期待在批评中重建一种更广阔的审美意识。本书人物的选择和论述的重点,也暗示了一套可欲的批评传统:一种肉身实践与话语相互印证的努力。

The review examines three central themes in Terry Eagleton's Critical Revolutionaries:the tension with academic establishments,a project for a more materialist,objective set of aesthetics,and a push for criticism grounded in intellectual sincerity and embodiment.It explores Eagleton's dialogue not only with his own extensive body of work but also within the broader discourse of the past decade on the ethics of literary criticism,particularly in relation to Joseph North's Literary Criticism:A Concise Political History.The review suggests that Eagleton's book champions a type of critical discourse capable of transcending the repetitive and mutually-reinforcing nature of academic echo chambers.Additionally,it implies that the manner in which the five figures and their critical activities are choreographed reveals a desire to revive a significant critical tradition:an endeavor where words and practice validate each other.