新历史主义强调对文本的政治和文化阅读,文本被视为权利的手段,文本应具有解构“旧”文本中逻各斯中心主义的精神。一向视现代主义文学大师艾略特为敌的威廉斯在《佩特森》中采取了“边缘话语”策略,描写普通人的生活和故事;坚持了地方主义文化方向和口语与对话风格。威廉斯通过这种方式来抗衡和解构艾略特精英式的风格和话语霸权,并借此来建构自己在文学史中的话语权力和形象。但在《佩特森》尾卷中威廉斯却又回归了欧洲传统,从而亦解构了自我。 New historicism emphasizes the political and cultural reading of the text, the text as a means of rights, and the text should have the spirit of logocentrism in the deconstructed “old” text. Williams, always opposed by Eliot, the master of modernism, adopted the strategy of “marginal discourse” in “Paterson” to describe the life and story of ordinary people. He persisted in the cultural orientation of localism and the style of spoken and spoken dialogue . In this way, Williams contends and deconstructs Eliot ’s elite style and discourse hegemony, and constructs his own discourse power and image in the history of literature. However, in the “Paterson” tail roll, Williams returned to the European tradition, thus deconstructing himself.