摩天楼与美国现代主义文学
摘要
19世纪末到20世纪30年代,是美国城市建设从水平转为垂直方向发展的狂热期,美国摩天楼的建设高峰期也正是美国现代主义文学发生和发展的重要时期。本文通过探讨摩天楼作为美国现代性的象征意义,以及摩天楼所带来的空间体验如何改变感知方式和文学表现方式,从而揭示摩天楼与美国现代主义文学之间复杂细微的关系,以及审美领域与城市建设之间的互动。
Over the period between the 1890sand the 1930s,American cities were fascinated with the ideal of verticality.The first wave of skyscraper constructions coincided with the emergence of American modernist art and literature.This essay studies the skyscraper as a central symbol of capitalist modernity and explores how skyscrapers changed the perception of the city residents and shaped the aesthetic sensibilities of the modernist literature.This essay argues that there is an interaction between skyscrapers and American modernist literature,between aesthetics and urban planning.
Over the period between the 1890sand the 1930s,American cities were fascinated with the ideal of verticality.The first wave of skyscraper constructions coincided with the emergence of American modernist art and literature.This essay studies the skyscraper as a central symbol of capitalist modernity and explores how skyscrapers changed the perception of the city residents and shaped the aesthetic sensibilities of the modernist literature.This essay argues that there is an interaction between skyscrapers and American modernist literature,between aesthetics and urban planning.
引文
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6 .Elliot,Emory,ed.The Columbia History of the American Novel.New York:Columbia UP,1991.
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11 .帕索斯:《曼哈顿中转站》,闽南译。重庆:重庆出版社,2006。
12 .盛宁:《现代主义·现代性·现代话语:对“现代主义”的再审视》。北京:北京大学出版社,2011。
13 .汪民安:《现代性》。南京:南京大学出版社,2012。
14 .周宪:《现代性的张力》,载《文学评论》1999年第1期。
15 .朱大可:《摩天楼的权力政治》,载《南风窗》2003年第8 期。
2 .Benjamin,Walter.Charles Baudelaire:a Lyric Poet in an Era of High Capitalism.Trans.Harry Zohn.London:Verso,1997.
3 .Calinescu,Matei.Five Faces of Modernity:Avantgarde,Decadence,Kitsch,Postmodernism.Bloomington:Indiana UP,1977.
4 .Campi,Mario.Skyscrapers:An Architectural Type of Modern Urbanism.Berlin:Birhauser,2000.
5 .Cather,Willa.“Behind the Single Tower.”Willa Cather′s Collected Short Fiction,1892-1912.Ed.Virginia Faulkner.Lincoln:U of Nebraska P.1970.
6 .Elliot,Emory,ed.The Columbia History of the American Novel.New York:Columbia UP,1991.
7 .Howells,William Dean.“Editor′s Easy Chair.”Harper′s Monthly(Mar.1909):479-82.
8 .James,Henry.The American Scene.New York:Penguin,1994.
9 .Sartre,Jean-Paul.“American Novelist in French Eyes.”Atlantic Monthly(August 1946):114-18.
10 .Vidler,Anthony.The Architectural Uncanny:Essays in Modern Unhomly.Cambridge,Mass.:MIT,1999.
11 .帕索斯:《曼哈顿中转站》,闽南译。重庆:重庆出版社,2006。
12 .盛宁:《现代主义·现代性·现代话语:对“现代主义”的再审视》。北京:北京大学出版社,2011。
13 .汪民安:《现代性》。南京:南京大学出版社,2012。
14 .周宪:《现代性的张力》,载《文学评论》1999年第1期。
15 .朱大可:《摩天楼的权力政治》,载《南风窗》2003年第8 期。