佩特诗学的三大主题及其当代接受.pdfVIP

摘 要 瓦尔特·佩特（Walter Pater ，1839-1894）是十九世纪末英国唯美主义流派 最重要的理论家之一。其诗学理论继承古希腊艺术淳朴自然之风，广泛吸取德 国古典哲学以及早期浪漫派的思想精髓，倡导“为艺术而艺术”的纯粹美学观， 强调内心情感的瞬间审美体验，追求内容与形式相统一的完美艺术载体，为后 来王尔德等唯美主义者的艺术实践、以及世界范围内唯美主义思潮的产生和广 泛传播提供了理论基础，在西方文艺思潮从浪漫主义到唯美主义乃至后来的现 代主义的发展过程中起到了一种承前启后的过渡作用。 然而，佩特诗学却因自身带有一定的历史超前性而不被其同时代社会所理 解和接受，在欧美文学批评史上毁誉参半。直到历史跨入世纪之交，在多元化 与自由化成为整个时代主题的环境下，当代学者们才又开始以一种客观平和的 心态去重新了解和接受他的思想本质，并在欧美文艺批评界逐渐掀起一场对佩 特诗学的重释和深入研究的热潮。 本文的写作目的旨在对佩特诗学的理论指向进行客观阐释性介绍，并针对 当代佩特诗学接受中最重要的三个主题——“审美的瞬间”、“内容与形式的统 一”、“道德”及其接受情况进行分类论述，进而揭示佩特接受史的发展转变带 给我们的现代性启示。同时，笔者也希望通过对国内外佩特研究资料的搜集整 理，达到进一步丰富国内目前佩特研究资料积累的目的，对后来者进一步了解 和研究佩特诗学做资料性的铺垫。 关键词：审美的瞬间；内容与形式的统一；道德；接受 Abstract Walter Pater (1839-1894) is one of the most important Aestheticism theorists of Britain in the 19th century. His poetics carried forward and developed the natural and simple characters of ancient Greek art, widely absorbed the essences of classical German philosophy and early Romanticism, advocated the pure aesthetics opinion of “Art for arts sake”, emphasized the instant experience of one’s innermost feelings, and pursued the perfect art carrier with a fusion of form and content. It provided a basis for Oscar Wilde’s aestheticism practice later and the Aestheticism’s spreading all over the world. It still took an important place as a link between the past and the future in the development of Western artistic movement from Romanticism to Aestheticism and even to Modernism. However, Pater’s poetics could not be understood and received by his contemporaries just because of his coming ahead of his time. Many a pointed critique in Occident art criticism directed their attack at him until the new era coming. In the contemporary era, critics and scholars were beginning to try to