文学理论:从教学形态到理论本体探讨

探讨文学理论的学科体系和理论本体问题 ,可以从文学理论的教学形态入手。在我国现行文学理论教学形态中 ,其学科概念、范畴所指存在着一些习惯性的理解与表达错误 ,导致文学理论与文学发展史、文学批评相分离。文学理论的理论活力减弱 ,使其逐渐成为知识汇编。重建文学理论学科 ,改进其教学形态 ,其思想基点是深入探索文学理论赖以生存的哲学美学资源和文学构成本身。文学理论首先是一种“理论” ,思维与方法是其不可缺少的特质 ;然后是关于“文学的”理论 ,必须紧扣文学本身进行言说。

Literary Theory:the Way It Is Taught and the Way It Is Theoretically Explored

One way to study the disciplinary system of literary theory and the theoretical issues related to it is to look at the way it is taught. In China, teaching of literary theory is often conducted in ways that contain mistakes in both comprehension and expression of certain concepts and categories, which results in the isolation of literary theory from literary history and literary criticism. The diminishing of the vitality of literary theory has made it a conglomeration of knowledge. To reconstruct literary theory as a discipline, it is essential to base it on the philosophical, aesthetical and literary resources that are pivotal to its existence. After all, literary theory is a "theory" in the first place, and as such should have a proper way of thinking and methodology. Secondly it is a "literary" theory, and as such it must concern itself with literature.