珍贵的荒谬
Precious nonsense
Booth, Stephen.、Stephen Booth · 初版 1998 年
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我们在阅读伟大文学作品时的何种体验，让我们对它们如此珍视？Stephen Booth提出，我们最推崇的作品所具有的独特魅力，其一大源泉，甚至可能是最大的源泉，在于它们在某种程度上都是完全不合逻辑的。通过解读三篇截然不同的文本——Gettysburg Address、Ben Jonson为其子女所作的Epitaphs以及莎士比亚的Twelfth Night——中错综复杂的修辞、不合逻辑的跳跃和最为荒谬的意象，Booth展示了在这类丰富阅读体验的“心理博弈”中，诗学是如何战胜逻辑的。
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Booth 是我的论文导师，Seth 是我的朋友。《Precious Nonsense》非常棒，强烈推荐，也很乐意在这儿开个 thread 进一步讨论。
Booth was my thesis advisor and Seth is a friend. Precious Nonsense is great, would highly recommend and am happy to discuss further in a thread here.
好文章。Booth 的《Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night》听起来也很有意思。“我们为什么如此看重文学？很多人会说是因为它带给我们的体验。但这种体验究竟是……
Good article. Booth's Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night sounds intriguing, too. "Why do we value literature so? Many would say for the experience it brings us. But what is it…