“重划疆界”与“厚描”——新历史主义文学批评关键词

“Boundaries Redrawing” and “Thick Description”———Keywords in New-Historicism Criticism

格林布拉特曾指出,文学和文学研究的疆界从来不是固定不变的,划界和重新划界乃是文学研究的特点。作为当代多元文化产物的新历史主义,其文学批评即肇始于对历史和文学的重划疆界,它打破了历史与文学、文学文本与其他非文学文本之间的固定界线。在批评实践中,新历史主义吸纳了人类学中"厚描"的方法,注重多种文本的"互文互动",这是其新型历史观和文本观的必然结果。

Stephen Greenblatt has pointed out that the boundaries established in literature and lit- erary studies are never fixed, and mapping and remapping characterizes the field of literary criticism. As a product in the multi-cultural background, New-Historicism came into being with remapping the fields of history and literature. It has breached the fixed boundaries between history and literature, between literary texts and non-literary texts. In its critical practices, New-Historicism absorbs the method of ＂thick description＂ from anthropology and pays much attention to the interactions between various texts which is the necessary measure in accordance with its new opinions on history and literature.