新历史主义崛起的文化史释析

A Cultural History of New Historicism

经过20世纪60年代的激进政治的熔炉,批评家意识到批评必须致力于具有政治和历史意识的学术研究,而20世纪60年代末左派在政治上失败后,撤退到学术界,通过颠覆学术的手段继续战斗。同时,学术自身发展对变革的要求,同学者自身性别、阶级、种族等的多元化一起,带来了学界的"重新划界"。而现实世界对历史的遗忘,则促使新历史主义者在研究中对历史进行补偿性的拥抱。

After the radicalism of 1960s, critics realize that academic study should be politically and historically committed. So the leftists continue their subversion in academia when they failed in the real world. In the meantime, the demand for change from academia, together with the more and more diver- sified class, racial and sexual identities of the critics, accelerate the redrawing of boundaries in literary study. Last but not least, the historicist investment in modern culture can be seen as a compensation for our oblivion of history.