中文摘要：

T.S.艾略特是英国现代主义文学运动的一员骁将,其创作主要表现19世纪末到20世纪欧洲的战争危机和现代人的道德瓦解。拉尔夫·埃利森是非裔美国现代主义文学的先锋,其创作旨在争取黑人的身份地位和种族平等,使黑人文学融入白人主流文学。同为现代主义作家,白人作家T.S.艾略特是黑人作家拉尔夫·埃利森的文学前辈,他们之间既有共性,也有差异。他们耳濡目染的是不同的文学传统,但都关注“他者”,“埃塞俄比亚之风”是触发其现代主义文学创作的艺术灵感之一。他们都具有强烈的使命感,关注和思考人类命运和世界秩序,其现代主义创作动机就是要通过艺术打破既有的人类社会秩序,用音乐语言软化这个充满暴力的混乱世界。他们的文学创作高度艺术化,与历史现实保持一种若即若离的关系,体现出某种超越主流现代主义的独特文风。本文从“埃塞俄比亚之风”、文学艺术、文学传统与历史等方面探讨了艾略特和埃利森的现代主义文学观,旨在证明,他们的现代主义思想丰富了主流现代主义文学,在某种程度上反映了现代主义文学创作的真谛,值得学界重视和世人反思。

英文摘要：

As a preeminent figure in European Modernism, T.S. Eliot concentrates on European war crisis and moral degeneration from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Ralph Ellison, a modernist pioneer in African American literature, strives for identity and equality of the Blacks and for literary integration into the White mainstream. Both as modernist writers, Eliot and Ellison share similarities as well as differences. While they witnessed different literary traditions, they also showed concerns for the ＂other＂, with ＂Ethiopia airs＂ as their literary inspiration. Motivated by their strong sense of professional mission as writers, they focused their interest on human fate and world order, hoping to challenge the existing social systems and soften this world of violence and chaos by means of their modernist artistic writing, which keep some distance from historical reality, demonstrating certain feature which transcends the mainstream modernism enriched in turn by the two writers＇ modernist perspectives which to some degree reflects the true motivation of the conscientious modernist writers and so deserves more attention from the scholarship.