个体启蒙的另一路向——个人主义话语背景下“五四”新文学形式的变革

Another Way of Individual Enlightenment——Changes of literary form of May 4th New Literature under the influence of individualism

在新文化运动初期高涨的个人主义话语背景下,文学形式的变革主要表现在两方面:一是新文学作品中的第一人称叙事大量出现,这一变革隐含着新文学作家创作思想的转变,作家自我的内心倾诉和情感体验被赋予了极高的地位。二是日记体、书信体的流行,这一形式能够更好地进行自我表达,因此获得了许多新文学作家的青睐,也产生了不少名篇。在新文学发生之初,形式的变革在一些起步之作中有引发情感泛滥与创作雷同的趋势,但也使得新文学具有了20世纪文学的现代性品质。

In the initial stage of the new culture movement, individualism thought affected the literary form in two aspects. Firstly, a large number of first-person narrative appeared in the new literature, which implied the change of writer＇s thought in literary creation. Writer＇s self heart talk and emotional experience were endowed with high status. Secondly, diary style and letter style became popular and writers were able to express themselves better. Such kind of literary forms were highly praised and a lot of famous works thus were produced. Though some works were emotionally flooded with similar plots, the changes of the form brought the new literature a modern quality of the 20^th century.