知识分子的精英意识与启蒙文学的兴衰

在过去的一个世纪里,启蒙文学在中国经历了两次高潮,一次是在1920年代"五四"运动前后,另一次是在1980年代新时期文学之初.遗憾的是,两次启蒙文学都是昙花一现,未能为继.90年代以后,在文学领域,启蒙话语的失效已经成为一个不争的事实.启蒙文学的世纪兴衰,与知识分子主体的精英意识具有重要的关联.因为与作用于文学的政治、经济、文化等外围因素相比,创作主体主观精神世界的改变要更为直接地对文学创作发生影响,这是一种更为内在的驱动力.

The Intellectuals' Elite Sense and the Rise and Decline of Enlightenment Literature

Over the past century,the Enlightenment Literature had undergone two climaxes in China,one in the 1920s before and after the May 4th Movement,and the other in the 1980s,the beginning of the Literature of New-Era.Unfortunately,the two times of Enlightenment Literature were both a flash,and waned soon.After the 1990s,in the field of literature,it has become an indisputable fact that enlightenment has lost its efficacy.It has important and great relevance between the rise and decline of Enlightenment Literature and the intellectuals' elite sense.Compared with politics,economics,culture and other external factors,the change of the writers' mind as a more intrinsic force,would more directly influence the writing.