飞机、空中舷窗视角与美国现代主义文学  

The Airplane,Its Airscape,and American Modernist Literature

作　　者：隋亚男 Sui Yanan(School of English Studies,Tianjin Foreign Studies University,Tianjin 300204,China)

机构地区：[1]天津外国语大学英语学院

出　　处：《外国文学研究》2023年第1期129-140,共12页Foreign Literature Studies

基　　金：国家社会科学基金重大项目“美国文学地理的文史考证和学科建构”(16ZDA197);天津市哲学社会科学基金青年项目“20世纪初英国现代主义小说的视觉转向研究”(TJWWQN19-004)。

摘　　要：飞机作为20世纪初新型交通的代表,在现代性的时空重构中发挥了重要作用。舷窗下壮丽的大地告诉人们视知世界的另一种可能。两战期间是美国航空事业初创和发展的重要阶段,这与“迷惘的一代”、美国现代主义文学的发生几近同期。飞机旅行及空中舷窗视角带去了全新的时空体验,作家们不仅将飞行速度、将舷窗风景书写在作品中,更将其中提示的瞬时、现时、共时等现代时空理念纳入了对文学形式的思考。飞机速度及其代表的瞬时观启发作家们反思历时叙事模式的弊端;飞行体验中的现时和现存感启示叙事转向对当下和内在的探索;飞机舷窗景观展现出的共时感成为现代主义形式实验的灵感来源之一。新的交通手段滋长了全新的时空理念,促成了文学家从历时思维中跳脱出来,使叙事转向了现代主义。The airplane,as a representative new mode of transport in the early 20th century,has played a key role in the modern reconstruction of time and space. The splendid earth seen from the airplane’s window shows people another possible way to view and perceive the world. The period between the two world wars is an important stage for the startup and development of American aviation. It is almost the same time period in which the Lost Generation and American Modernist literature emerged. With the new temporal and spatial experience from the air travel and the airscape outside the airplane’s window,writers not only weave the airspeed and the airscape into their writings,but also take the newly obtained space-time perceptions,such as instantaneity,synchronicity,and simultaneity,into their consideration of new literary forms. The airspeed and the instantaneity it suggests inspire writers to reflect upon the drawbacks of linear narrative mode;the synchronicity and the sense of being in the flying experience prompt the narrative to explore the moment of being and the inner world;the simultaneity manifested by the airscape becomes one of the inspirational sources for the formal experiments of Modernism. The new vehicle of transport has fostered brand new space-time concepts and,thereby,helped writers shift their narrative from the chronological mode to that of Modernism.

关 键 词：飞机 空中舷窗视角 美国现代主义文学 时空性 

分 类 号：I712.06[文学—其他各国文学]