理性文学与文学理性──古典主义和启蒙主义文学的辨析和思考

RATIONAL LITERATURE AND LITERARY RATIONALITY

对欧洲２０世纪前各种文学思潮中的理性元素的综览显示：只有１７、１８世纪的古典主义、启蒙主义文学才堪称理性文学，此前彼后文学思潮中的理性倾向则只能称之为文学理性．而理性文学得以形成是顺应了近代自然科学、哲学和社会的变革和发展．同为理性文学，古典主义与启蒙主义又在反封建、狭义与广义、方法论与认识论上各具差异。理性文学曾对文学理论和文学形式的发展作出了积极贡献。

Tdking into account all the rctional elements concerned with all the literary trends before the 20th century in Europe,we can find that only the 17th and 18th century classicist and enlightenment literature can be considered to be rational literature.The rational tendency of the other literary movements is equal to no more than literary rationality,The formation of rational literature is in accordance with there volution and development of modern natural science, philosophy and society. Though they both belong to rational literature, classicist literatureand enlightenment on they are different in terms of their broad and narrow senses, anti-feudalism,methodolgy and epistemology.Rational literature has contributdel a great deal to the development of literary theory and literary genres.