汉语语境下外国文学史的现代性转换——评韩耀成先生《德国文学史》第四卷

A Modernist Transformation in the History of Foreign Literature in a Chinese Context: A Review of A History of German Literature

韩耀成先生的新著《德国文学史》第四卷,既融会贯通了历史唯物主义以及辩证法思想,又吸收了当代西方哲学社会科学新思想和新方法,系统梳理了1880-1945年间德国文学政治、文化和社会生活领域复杂的思想表现形态,对德国现代文学的立论基础、目的和历史定位有着令人信服的把握,很好地解决了文化精神与文学思潮的关系问题。作为一部新型的外国文学史文本,该著作完成了汉语语境下的外国文学史由传统性到现代性的转换,是新时期个性化的外国文学史写作实绩之一。

Han Yaocheng’s new book,Vol.4 of A History of German Literature,demonstrates his absorption of historical materialism and dialectics as well as the new thought and method in contemporary Western philosophy,systematically reviews the complicated expressional forms in German politics,culture and social life during the period from 1880 to 1945.It exhibits the writer’s solid mastery of modern Germanic literary foundations,purposes and historical localization,and well balances the cultural spirits and literary trends.The book,a marvelous work with its special taste in the new era,is a new text of foreign literary history that has successfully accomplished a modernist transformation in the history of foreign literature in a Chinese context.