《边城》:民间的现代性与庄严

The Border Town:Folk Modernity and Solemnity

民间文化形态在沈从文的小说创作中具有重要的意义。在城乡文化对峙中 ,沈从文浸润着乡土民间精神的心灵 ,强烈的感受到了都市带给他的压抑和痛苦 ,以诗意的民间立场 ,重塑了一个民族的文化形象 ,使地域性的生命具有了普遍性的庄严 ,民间文化形态的一隅文化景观具有了人类性的现代意义。

Forms of folk culture play important roles in Shen Congwen's fictional works In terms of cultural conflicts between urban and rural areas,he has a strong sensation of depressions and pains resulting from urban life because his heart is imbued with the spirit of rural folk Adopting a poetic folk stand,Shen Congwen reinvents the cultural image of the nation,endowing local colour with univeral solemnity,regional landscape with humanistic modernity.