“纽约文人”:一个被遗忘的文学批评部落

“纽约文人”是美国于20世纪30年代中期至50年代末期活跃在纽约的一群犹太知识分子和文学批评家的统称。这个群体继承了美国左翼知识分子的激进传统,但又摆脱了老左派的布尔什维克主义,立足于文学想象与社会现实的辩证关系,对西方现代主义文学及美国本土文学进行研究,激活了富有美国特色的社会文化批评的传统。

The New York Intellectuals: A Forgotten Group of Literary Criticism

The New York Intellectuals refer to the group of Jewish scholars and literary critics lived in New York between 1930-50s.They inherited radical tradition of American Left-wing intellectuals,and abandoned Bolshevism amongst the Old Leftist.On the basis of dialectical relations of literary (imagination) to social reality,they studied the Western literary modernism and American native literature,thus impelled characteristically American tradition in social-cultural criticisms.