论当代文化背景下倡导经典阅读的意义

当代中国,经典阅读呈衰落之势,其既因现实情势的引导作用,也有历史上印刷文艺发展不充分的传统原因。在目前所有的各种文化———特别是文艺———接受形式中,阅读在调动和强化接受主体的能动性、想象力、创造意识等方面所具有的优势和独特意义,是其他任何形式都不可替代的。阅读对拓展与涵养主体精神世界的特殊意义主要在于:文本特有的表现手段对主体参与再创造的能动性的触导与培养;阅读活动对主体审美心态的特别要求与陶冶;阅读品位对主体精神品格的潜在影响。

The Significance in Advocating Classics Reading in the Present Cultural Background

Now in China, classics reading has been declining generally because of the practical influences of the modern society and the underdevelopment of printing business in history. Reading has unique importance in encouraging the activity, imagination and creativity on the part of the readership, which no other alternate can function at the same level. The special significance of reading lies in the cultivation of the readers' mind. In other words, reading has distinct expressions to inspire the readership into active creativity, reading cultivates the aesthetic sense of the readership, and the taste of reading exerts profound spiritual influences on the readership.