走向文明的批评：现实与诗性之间——论埃·威尔逊的批评观

美国20世纪著名文学和社会批评家埃德蒙·威尔逊以不辍笔耕的半个世纪向公众展示了他独特的文学批评观.从早期的批评代表作品《阿克瑟尔的城堡》到后期的《走向芬兰车站》,威尔逊坚持认为文学批评是对一个民族文明发展轨迹的综合把握,这种综合是指文学批评的诗性、社会性和公共性的统一.只有这样,文学批评才能保持长久的生命力,才能更为有效地完成诠释文本、触动公众和服务社会的使命.

Literary Criticism: An Aesthetic Approach to Civilization

Edmund Wilson,one of the most significant American literary critics of the 20th century,advocates an aesthetic comeback of literary criticism to the society.This leading leitmotif of returning to life and art keeps recurring in a series of Wilson's works ranging from The Axel's Castle to To the Finland Station.Literary critics,he claims,should establish an interaction and interdependence among the artistic interpretation,the reading public and the society.Only by this approach can literary criticism better fulfill its mission and retain its vitality.