“向下”与“深度”:德·昆西的黑暗崇高与心理空间  

"Downwardness"and"Depth":Thomas De Quincey's"Dark Sublime"and Psychological Space

作　　者：郑鸿升 

机构地区：[1]福建理工大学人文学院

出　　处：《英语文学研究》2024年第1期1-15,共15页Journal of Literature in English

基　　金：教育部人文社会科学研究青年基金项目“19世纪英国文学中的阿拉丁形象演变研究”(18YJC752054)阶段性研究成果。

摘　　要：“崇高”在英国19世纪的美学中是一个经常讨论、多次被撰写的话题,涉及该话题的理论家有埃德蒙·伯克和詹姆斯·毕提等。德·昆西对此话题的贡献,虽然不太为人熟知,但是很重要。本文将追溯他的“黑暗崇高”的起源,关注他童年时期的阅读和天文学对他的影响,特别是阿拉丁和神灯的故事对他的影响。在巫师的法术所产生的诡谲中,德·昆西看到了“黑暗崇高”的例证。他受到当时天文学发现的影响而形成的空间观,使他意识到产生黑暗崇高的对象都具有“向下”的品质。“向下”产生崇高的想法是对18世纪英国美学的“深度”观的进一步拓展,是对英国崇高美学的丰富。"Sublime"is a much discussed and much written-upon topic in the nineteenth-century aesthetics.Theorists on the sublime include Edmund Burke and Thomas Beattie,and Thomas de Quincey's contribution to this topic,not widely known,is nevertheless important.This essay traces his conception of the"dark sublime"through his early writings on childhood reading and on astronomy,especially his reading of the story of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.The uncanny power of magic inspired his thinking on the"dark sublime"which he notices is often produced by objects with the quality of"downwardness"and"depth."De Quincey's theory of"downwardness",influenced by the current astronomical exploration of space,is a new understanding of"depth"which already existed in the British aesthetics of"the sublime".

关 键 词：德·昆西 巫师 黑暗崇高 “向下” 空间 

分 类 号：I561.06[文学—其他各国文学] B83-0[哲学宗教—美学]