“个人主义”与中国现代散文

Individualism and Modern Chinese Prose

个人主义思想与中国现代散文的发生发展具有密切的关系。现代散文随着西方"个人主义"思想在中国的传播而产生。五四时期,"个人主义"孕育了现代散文的思想内容和散文理论的变革。1920年代,"个人主义"思想影响了现代散文的发展与创作特征,促进了现代散文的潮流分化。1930年代,"个人主义"的结构性矛盾促发了现代散文领域的论争。"个人主义"思想因其固有的局限性和矛盾性,在特定历史时期遭到了抵制和批判,但是它却丰富了现代散文的风格和特征,在文学史上占有重要位置。

Individualism is closely related to the rise and growth of modem Chinese prose. That is to say, modem Chinese prose is given birth to along with, and as a result of, the spread of the Western thoughts of individualism in China. ＂individualism＂ brought about changes of the subject matter and the theory of modem prose during the May Fourth Movement in 1919; it bore its impacts on the development and artistic characteristics of modem prose, and accelerated the differentiation of different schools of modem prose during the 1920s, and in the 1930s, its structural contradictions gave rise to the controversy in the field of modern prose. ＂Individualism＂ was rejected and criticized during particular historical periods because of its inherent limita- tions and contradictions, though, it, all the same, enriched the style and characteristics of modem prose, thus ranking highly in Chinese literary history.