《红楼梦》文化研究的文献集成和学理建树——胡文彬先生《红楼梦与中国文化论稿》评述

Commentary on Hu Wenbin's Essays on A Dream of Red Mansions and Chinese Culture

《红楼梦与中国文化论稿》理论体系的一大特色,就是《红楼梦》文化文献集成和学理建树的相结合。另一个特色是对《红楼梦》文化范畴的张力与文学的关系的系统全面的研究。依据对范畴性质的意义的认知,从历史文化语境、文化思维意识和传统文化艺术三个的角度概括文化张力对文学影响的差异。《论稿》中关于《红楼梦》文化范畴对文学的叙事功能的多方面阐释,构成了《论稿》理论体系最重要的内容。该书的文化子范畴,涉及到了历史、习俗、意识、艺术、园林、服饰的方方面面。其囊括的文化范畴之广、之全,不仅是目前《红楼梦》文化研究的集大成者,而且更重要是作者着眼于文化范畴的多样性,去涵盖《红楼梦》文化的个性。胡先生的研究成果对实现《红楼梦》研究第三次转型具有重要而深远意义。

One of the features of theoretical system of Essays on A Dream of Red Mansions and Chinese Culture is the combination of the cultural literature integration of A Dream of Red Mansions and the theoretical achievements on the story; the other is the comprehensive study on the relationship between the cultural strength and literature of the novel. From the recognition of cultural significance, the author summarized the different influence from the aspects of historical cultural context, cultural thinking consciousness and traditional culture and art. In the book, the explanations of influence of cultural category in A Dream of Red Mansions on its literary narration constitute its theo- retical system. The sub-categories of the book cover a wide cultural scope such as history, convention, consciousness, art, garden, clothes. It is a masterpiece on the study of culture of A Dream of Red Mansions. More importantly, the author has discovered the cultural personality of the novel with a view to its diversity of cultural category. Such an achievement has a critical and far-reaching significance for the third transformation of Redology.