文学史家也是文学批评家——从陈平原对夏志清的批评谈起

陈平原对夏志清文学史写作的批评中强调文学史与文学批评的分界,这一提法反映了美学对于文学史家只是辅助手段的偏见。过分注重演化价值的文学史写法带来一些消极的影响,即强调科学、实证的研究思维,忽略了作品与艺术家个性的关系以及艺术作品里隐含的世界观问题。文学史家在建构宏阔的史学框架时应同时具备对作品的想象性理解,因而优秀的文学史家也是文学批评家。

Literary Historians and Literary Critics:A Review of Chen Pingyuan's Critique of C.T.Hsia

The position Chen Pingyuan holds in his reading of C.T.Hsia's A History of Modern Chinese Fiction that literary history and literary criticism are two different things is no more than a reflection of the traditional prejudice that aesthetics is nothing but an assistant means of literary critics.Indeed,the negative influence left by the over-emphasis on the so called evolution value in writing literary history,i.e.,preferring the scientific and empirical elements to the particularity of the work and the arti...