日本现代文学形成过程中的伦理手段——告白(英文)

Confession as an Ethical Device in the Formation of Modern Japanese Literature

本文着重考察一个至今没有得以关注的问题,即日本现代文学形成时期自我告白作为文学伦理手段。具有现代性质的早期现代小说形成于男性知识分子主人公与另一个男性知识分子之间的伦理告白主题。告白作为文学伦理手段是男性知识分子创作的结果,并通过作品中男性知识分子人物之间的交流而得以突显。日本现代小说通过告白表现出现代个体的伦理负罪感和内心冲突,形成了一套标准的表现手法。在这一意义上,可以说,正是在新的现代国家和个体建构的伦理秩序之上,日本现代文学得以形成。本文运用聂珍钊教授主张的文学伦理批评方法,对日本现代文学史上出现的文学伦理和表现手段进行考察,试图为文学研究提供一种新的研究方向。

Early modern novels configuring modernity are established on the basis of the motif of ethical self-confession between double-domed male hero and another male intellectual. The literary ethical device of self-confession is created by male intellectuals and emerged through the interaction between the male characters. Modern Japanese literature has thus created the standard method of the modern novel as it expresses the modern individual＇s ethical sense of guilt or ethical inner conflicts through confession. In this respect, it is not unconvincing to say that the new modern state as well as the individual has builtthe ethical order which form the background of the birth of modern Japanese literature. This paper will not only examine the literary ethics implicit in the device of confession, but also provide an alternative approach to the history of modern Japanese literature by adopting Nie Zhenzhao＇s method of ＂ethical literary criticism.＂