揪心痛楚的文艺研究——代“文艺与灾害”专栏导语

Excruciating Literature Studies:The Introduction to the Column on Literature and Disasters

战争的痛苦记忆尚未远去,灾害的频繁降临撕裂心肺。作为"人学"的文学(艺)所关切的对象,已从人本身出发,走向自然环境与人类社会共同维系的存在世界。现代文艺学或文学理论的建构,既要溯古凝思,更需现实关怀;既要凸显特色,更需学科交叉。没有强烈的现实关怀、充沛的学术情感和敏感的创新思维,文艺学或文学理论的更新发展就会陷于僵化和停滞。在灾害频繁袭击人类并成为人类共同关注的对象时,文学何为?艺术何为?文艺学何为?当是我们必须面对的严肃问题。揪心痛楚的文艺研究理当应运而生,因需而长。在这方面,我们的思考都是初步的,本专栏中的几篇文章,包括本文都还是角度各异却可互补的关于灾害与文学(艺)的探索,意在获取相关的有益启示。

With the painful memory of war still impressing us,the frequent arrivals of disaster leave our heart aching.The literature studies,as the object concerned by humanistic literature,lead to the existent world linked to natural environment and human society,based on human beings.The modern literature studies or the construction of literature theories should not only trace back to the past,but also care about the reality;not only have their own characteristics,but also combined with other areas of science.The improvement and development of literature studies will be rigid and stagnating without the strongly care about reality,abundant literal emotion and sharp creative thinking.What should literature do when the disasters hit human so frequently that they become the generally cared problem gradually.And what about Arts？ And literature studies？ It should be the most serious issue we＇re faced with.So the excruciating literature studies come into existence and develop on demand.Here,our thoughts are merely elementary provided by the articles in this special column.So it is with this essay.It explores to the relation between disasters and literature studies from different aspects which are complementary aimed to acquire some relevant benefical enlighten ments.