林语堂诗学话语论析

林语堂认同“为艺术而从事艺术”的口号,并强调艺术是自由的“游戏”,表现了他以美学意义为艺术之魂的文学本质观。其创作论──“性灵”说的精髓在于：以文学须独创为理论基石,以作家与作品关系为切入视角,阐明唯有作家的独特个性能赋予作品以鲜活的生命。林氏视野宽广,能摘取并融合中西之璧为我所用,此为他建构诗学话语的方法学的特色。

Analysis into Lin Yutang's Discussions on Poetics

Lin Yutang agreed to "art for art' s sake", and stressed that arts were free "garnes". Lin' s words mean that the artistic creation is aesthetic activity and that the unique value of art lies in the reaization of "pumpiveness without puapse",just as Kant said. The essentials of his theory on "Xingling" should be understdri that the unique distinction of literary works is mot important and it derives from the author's specific feelings and skills. Lin always Inade the aesthetic ideas which appeared in ancient China and the West serve himself. This is an explicit characteristic of Lin's discussion on opetics.