文学理论范式：现代和后现代的转换

Literary Paradigm: from the Modern to the Postmodern

20世纪文学理论的发展出现了现代和后现代两种范式。两种范式在一系列文学理论的基本问题上有所冲突,因此形成了对立的理论立场和价值观。现代范式建立在启蒙精神的基础之上,强调普适价值和理性原则,彰显文学的语言审美功能;而后现代范式则更偏向差异性的价值观,更关注文学的政治意义。两种范式相互纠缠抵牾构成了文学理论的不和谐音。反思这一范式的冲突,如何超越现代/后现代的对立,探寻文学理论发展的未来路向,乃是当下理论界需要思考的难题。

This article focuses on two key paradigms in literary theory in the 20th century. One is called modern literary paradigm, another postmodern one. Obviously, there were and are a series of debates on literature and its values among the two paradigms. While modern paradigm based on the Enlightenment and emphasizes the universal values and aesthetic function in literature, postmodern one concentrates on differences and cultural politics in literature. The author argues that key issue is how to go beyond the opposition of the two paradigms and to reestablish a new paradigm for literary theory in the future.