比较视野中的中西诗学——美藉学者陈世骧的中西诗学研究

The Chinese and Western Poetics in a Comparative Perspective——The Study of the Chinese and Western Poetics by an American Scholar Named Chen Shi-Xiang

对美藉华裔学者陈世骧的中西比较诗学的研究,可以立足于宏观与微观两个方面。宏观方面,陈世骧通过中西文学尤其是诗歌传统的比较,认为中国文学乃是抒情传统,它迥异于西方的叙事传统;微观方面,陈世骧对中西诗论中的字词作了深入的辨析比较,俾助于人们认识中西诗学概念在文字表达上的异同。陈世骧的中西诗学研究,实际上并非宏微观绝然分割,而是两者有机地互为融合。通过剖析陈世骧的论著,能使读者充分认识中国诗学的抒情传统特色和中西诗学概念在文字上的异同表述,从而有助于更好地理解和把握中国传统诗学的内涵及其特征。

An approach to the study of the Chinese and Western poetics by Chen Shi-xiang, an American scholar, can be made from two levels of macro and micro. In the macro level, by comparison of the Chinese and Western traditions in literature, especially the tradition in poetry, Chen Shi-xiang concludes that the Chi- nese literature has a lyric tradition, which is different from the narrative tradition of the Western literature. And in the micro level, he makes a comparative analysis of the words of the Chinese and Western poetics, which is helpful in understanding the similarities and differences between the expressive concepts of the Chinese and Western poetics. Actually, in Chen＇s study of the Chinese and Western poetics, macro and micro are not abso- lutely segmental. Instead, they tend to blend organically. By analysis of Chen＇s works, the author enables readers to understand fully the lyric tradition of the Chinese poetic as well as the similarity and difference between the expressive concepts of the Chinese and Western poetics, thus contributing to a better understanding and grasping of the connotations and characteristics of the traditional Chinese poetry.