文学经典之争向文学研究回归的迹象

Signs of the Return to Literary Studies from the Debate on Literary Canon

1970年代兴起的"文学经典之争"让人发现了文学经典背后的文化问题,推动了文学研究向文化研究的转向,但其偏于文化研究一端的缺失导致了向文学研究回归的新动向,这种迹象在1990年代参与争论的几位代表人物那里已显露端倪。约翰·杰洛瑞、哈罗德·布鲁姆和乔纳森·卡勒都表达了在经典建构问题上回到文学和美学、保持一个文学和美学焦点的诉求。而他们的共同诉求又隐含着某种内在的逻辑,正有助于推动"文学经典之争"趋于一种合理的解决途径。

The debate on literary canon in 1970s raised the cultural issue behind literary canonization and promoted the turn from literary study to cultural studies. The turn, however, has also resulted in a return to literary studies, which could be seen in the 1990s arguments of some representative scholars engaged in the debate. Scholars such as J. Guillory, Harold Bloom and Jonathan Culler have all expressed that the canonization of literary texts should center on literature and aesthetics. Their common appeal al- so imphes an inherent ~ogic which he^ps to ~econei^e the debate on htera~ canon.