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薇拉·凯瑟的地域小说从多方面批判启蒙现代性的负面后果,追寻拯救现代文明的良方,体现出审美现代性的要义。凯瑟洞悉到启蒙现代性的发展对现代社会的全面侵蚀,表达了对异化社会的担忧;她指出启蒙现代性的过度发展造成现代人的人性失衡,并认为解放自然是治愈现代文明疾病的良药,也是现代人实现精神救赎的必经之路。这些见解不仅诘问资本主义社会的合理性,还展现出艺术作品所承担的救赎功能,具有经久不衰的人文价值。
Willa Cather’s regional novels criticize the negative consequences of enlightenment’s modernity from many aspects, pursue the remedy to save the modern civilization, and reflect the essence of aesthetic modernity. Cather learned that the development of modernity in Enlightenment eroded the modern society and expressed its concern about the alienated society. She pointed out that the over-development of enlightenment caused the imbalance of humanity in modern times and thought that liberation of nature is a good medicine to cure the disease of modern civilization , But also the only way for the modern people to achieve spiritual salvation. These opinions not only ask the rationality of capitalist society, but also demonstrate the redemptive function undertaken by the works of art and have an enduring humanistic value.